Volvo driver arrested in November hit-and-run fatality
BY JENNIFER CABRERA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Margaret Caitlin Walker, 29, turned herself in today and has been charged with DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death; Gainesville Police Department detectives determined that Walker was the driver of the Volvo XC-90 that struck and killed a bicyclist on S. Main Street on November 27, 2022.
A pedestrian discovered the body of the victim on the morning of November 28, along with the badly-damaged bicycle. The Volvo was located on November 30 and was impounded; Walker’s co-worker was driving it at the time.
Detectives identified Walker by obtaining subpoenas and warrants that granted them access to geolocation data; that information was used to confirm that Walker had been drinking at a number of establishments on the night of the accident.
As I said in another post minimum of 20 years lost of license for life takes a sorry SOB to just drive off like she did
Walker’s co-worker was driving it at the time?
Sounds like her designated driver is at fault.
The co worker was driving it at the time they impounded it
Co-worker was driving when they found the CAR…not Walker.
The co-worker was driving the car two days later when the cops found the car.
Read it again…
Even drink driving laws don’t work 100% of the time, sad. But is there a bike lane on that part of S. Main near Biven’s Arm park? Was the cyclist riding on the roadway, and is it a “bike-shared” section?
There is a sidewalk that would make the most sense to use on a dark highway in the middle of the night.
You too? You don’t think there’s something wrong with your comment?
My comment doesn’t excuse getting crashed into and being left to die. But don’t be afraid to use a little common sense, especially if it might save your life.
yes, we should all try to make the streets safer for people to drive drunk on the roadways
great questions…..
She left the scene of an accident! That’s not even relevant.
Don’t deflect.
There is no bike lane there. Just a nice sidewalk.
Reasonable Doubt
Geo-Historical Data is merely circumstantial evidence.
Any delay in chemical analysis of body fluids obtained, compromises the State’s case.
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Traffic Homicide Investigator
Traffic Crash Reconstructionist
Expert Witness
Pat: she killed him and left. Her car didn’t drive itself. No reasonable doubt there.
I think Pat clearly said she was referring to body fluids saying any delay in analyzing them compromises the states case and that sounds like common sense to me.
I agree with her too when she says Geo-Historical Data is circumstantial it doesn’t prove who was driving the car.
She admitted driving the car. Moot point.
Not defending her but the argument is someone else was driving her car, and she’s taking the fault. With that said, she shouldn’t have left the scene, obviously.
Saying that she was stone cold sober and decided not to stop driving after she hit a bicyclist might be even worse. “They served me too much” is probably her best defense, if there is any.
She is/was a bartender downtown, yet another incident where a reckless drunk cost someone their life. Similar to what happened to the girl who was killed on University Ave, service industry employee, fled the scene after he ran her over.
She’s apparently a Republican, Josh F. definitely is not. It was a student who killed the guy on 34th Street. I wouldn’t try so hard to over-generalize. Service workers are often the victims of crimes late at night. Not sure what the point of trying to demonize service workers is.
What does a person being republican or democrat have to do with someone running a person over and leaving the scene? Sounds like logical fallacy, distracting from the main topic in this discussion and trying to make it political.
They want you to believe they don’t drink and drive 😂 just like they don’t take classified papers when they leave office
I’m sure there will be a plea of no contest some months later. Regardless of the sentence, I hope the judge invokes the provision in Florida law in which reckless drivers can be made to perform community service in a trauma center or hospital that regularly receives accident victims so that Miss Walker can get a good look at the burden on the hospital staff, along with cleaning up blood and hauling remains to the hospital’s morgue.