Boyfriend Wakes From Coma to Tell Police His Angry Girlfriend Purposefully Rammed Her Honda Pilot Into Trees at 95 MPH
In February, the twisted wreckage of a Honda Pilot sat deep in a wall of Florida mangroves, both occupants trapped inside. The front passenger corner took the majority of the impact. Police first logged it as a tragic high-speed accident.
But when the surviving passenger came out of a coma weeks later, investigators learned the story wasn’t about bad luck. It was, reportedly, about rage.
Police say 24-year-old Leigha Mumby had been driving the Honda Pilot at close to 100 mph when it veered off the road and smashed into the trees
Her boyfriend, 22-year-old Daniel Waterman, took the full force of the crash from the passenger seat. He ended up with a broken neck and back.
Mumby screamed for help.
She was unaware that Waterman’s iPhone had automatically dialed 911
His phone detected a severe collision. The lack of response from its owner triggered an emergency call.
Doctors placed Waterman in a medically induced coma. For a time, police treated the crash as an awful accident.
Then he woke up, and everything changed.
Unable to speak, Waterman began communicating through a letter board.
He spelled out that the crash hadn’t been an accident at all. He reported that Mumby had just told him she was pregnant.
She had also accused him of texting another woman.
He claimed she snapped, turned off the road, and plowed the Honda Pilot straight into the trees on purpose.
He also communicated that she told him moments before impact, “I don’t care what happens. You’ll get what you deserve.”
After eight months of surgeries and recovery attempts, on October 8, Waterman died from his injuries.
When police confronted Mumby, she reportedly said she didn’t remember anything from the moments before the wreck.
But investigators aren’t buying it.
She was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide.
Detectives said there was no doubt in their minds the act was intentional. Mumby has pleaded not guilty to the charge, and the case remains open.