Lincoln woman arrested for hit and run had previous DUI arrest

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Lincoln Police arrested the driving force of a success and run accident caught on digital camera.

Surveillance video reveals a automobile hitting a lady who was lighting fireworks on the street close to NW sixth Road and Dawes Avenue on Saturday night time. The 21-year-old sufferer, Emilia Graham, has a damaged collar bone, a concussion, in addition to dozens of scrapes and bruises that cowl her physique. The accidents to her face wanted to be glued shut.

After the video went viral, Isabel Knapp-Cuevas, 22, contacted police and mentioned that she might have been concerned. Police carried out a number of interviews and analyzed digital proof to confirm it was her automobile and she or he was the driving force. Police went to Knapp-Cuevas’ home Monday afternoon and located a black 2011 Chevrolet Impala that had a flat tire and a lacking passenger facet rear view mirror in addition to different injury to the passenger facet. Police mentioned a rear-view mirror was discovered on the accident website.

Knapp-Cuevas mentioned she was unaware she struck a pedestrian and as an alternative thought she ran over an artillery shell. She mentioned the smoky air situations from the fireworks made it laborious to see.

Knapp-Cuevas was arrested Thursday for leaving the scene of an damage accident, property injury, no automobile registration, cease signal violation and driving below license revocation.

She wasn’t purported to be behind the wheel due to a DUI she obtained on Might 26. Based on a court docket doc, police pulled her over round 2:48 a.m. on Centennial Mall between O and N Streets. Her blood alcohol stage was 0.143 p.c.

She failed to look to her court docket look on June 29 and a warrant was issued for her arrest. She appeared in court docket on July 5 and 6 and launched on $1,500 bond. Her subsequent court docket date for the DUI is August 10.

Knapp-Cuevas appeared in court docket Thursday afternoon for leaving the scene of an damage accident and bond was set at $10,000.

A neighbor’s safety digital camera captured the crash, which occurred proper earlier than 11 p.m. on July 3 throughout an annual get together that Graham hosted. After the influence, Graham was struck, and the automobile that hit her took off after putting a automobile parked on the facet of the street.

Graham advised 10/11 she now wants fixed assist and a spotlight from mates and family members. Even easy duties like getting off the sofa and strolling exterior require at the least one individual’s help.

“My associate has needed to get me off the bed, in mattress, sit down, use the restroom, bathe, feed me,” Graham mentioned. “I can’t actually carry something up, I can’t open something.”

Within the July third surveillance video, Graham is seen leaning right down to mild off a firework. Inside seconds a automotive drives by the residential road. The course it was touring would additionally put it coming by an intersection with cease indicators.

Dozens of Graham’s family and friends watched her get hit, thrown within the air, and land a number of toes away. Witnesses mentioned Graham even put her arms out in entrance of her seconds earlier than the automotive barreled into her, in an try to sluggish it down or brace for the influence.

“Didn’t cease,” mentioned Adanya Hogan, a witness. “Went by the four-way cease. Went across the fountain, hit Emilia, and stored going straight. No brakes had been pumped, no lights got here on. They didn’t decelerate, if something they sped up after.”

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