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TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) — Investigators say a woman previously convicted of DUI manslaughter is facing new charges after crashing into a car dealership in Tampa. The Florida Highway Patrol captured the crash on camera: Investigators said an FHP sergeant clocked a speeding Hyundai going 111 miles-per-hour on the highway. The FHP sergeant came up behind the car to pull over the driver, when the car veered off the road, hit an embankment and flew into the Gator Ford car dealership. Trooper arrested Jennifer Carvajal, 24. An unidentified 22-year-old man in her car died from their injuries. Carvajal remains hospitalized with...

A Tampa woman on probation for a 2014 traffic fatality was arrested Sunday after a high-speed crash off Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County, authorities said. The crash happened at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday morning at the Gator Ford dealership, 1780 Tampa Gateway Boulevard near I-4, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Jennifer Carvajal after an arrest in 2020. (Source: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) The Highway Patrol said the driver, Jennifer Carvajal was clocked three times traveling west on Interstate 4 at 111 mph, and had passed a trooper without stopping. When the trooper tried to overtake her vehicle, Carvajal made...

A Florida woman who spent time in prison for a fatal crash years ago was traveling over 100 mph Sunday morning when she caused another terrifying wreck, killing one of her passengers and leaving two others seriously hurt, authorities said. Jennifer Carvajal, 24, was driving on Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County around 1:30 a.m. when she sped past a state trooper who clocked her three times going at 111 mph, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. As the trooper was trying to pull her over, the Tampa woman made a right turn and crashed her Hyundai Elantra into the shoulder....