A motorist who knocked down 20 cyclists, killing two of them, filmed himself sobbing in a bizarre video moments after the crash.
Pedro Quintana-Lujan faces 11 misdemeanor charges for the collision in February of last year.
He told police his steering wheel locked moments before impact on the Cotton Lane Bridge in Goodyear, Arizona.
The accident killed cyclists David Kero, 65, and Karen Malisa, 61, and left many more injured.
Now a video has emerged in which Quintana-Luján films himself seconds after the accident and tells his wife: “I killed someone.”
Pedro Quintana-Luján ran over 20 cyclists, killing two of them, and filmed himself sobbing in a bizarre video moments after the accident.
The clip obtained by ABC15, which appears to be intended for his wife, shows the host struggling to speak between sobs.
‘Honey, I’m scared, darling. I hit a lot of people, baby,’ she says. “Honey, I killed someone, honey.”
He then pans the camera to reveal the mangled mass of bicycles on the road.
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board indicated that Quintana-Luján made two calls after the accident, one to his wife and another to his father.
A 911 call was not detailed among the initial phone calls, according to the report. Emergency services received calls from a passerby and three of the victims.
He also stated that Quintana Luján had consumed alcohol and marijuana the night before but was not considered to be under the influence.
Survivor Clay Wells was among the most seriously injured and underwent an intensive rehabilitation process to recover.
He faces 11 misdemeanor charges for the collision in February of last year.
The crash on the Cotton Lane Bridge in Goodyear, Arizona, killed Davd Kero, 65, and Karen Malisa, 61.
Survivor Clay Wells was among the most seriously injured and underwent an intensive rehabilitation process to recover.
He said he believes the Maricopa County Prosecutor’s Office has failed victims in its approach to prosecuting Quintana-Luján.
‘If you read the NTSB report, I don’t understand how you can’t argue, at least to a presiding judge, that you couldn’t prove recklessness, especially those video links… of him receiving on his phone, Snapchat “, said.
County Attorney Rachel Mitchell previously stated that a lack of evidence means she will not pursue felony charges.
“This is a collision in which we cannot demonstrate with evidence that there was a conscious disregard for the risk to this individual.”
