{"id":562614,"date":"2026-08-08T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562614\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:12:10","slug":"footage-shows-drunk-driver-who-killed-new-bride-called-for-dad-asking-if-her-rental-car-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562614\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage shows drunk driver who killed new bride called for dad, asking if her rental car is okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCan I call my dad? Can I get a phone call? Is that okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">She continuously ignored police\u2019s instructions and challenged them to prove to her that she had been driving drunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI would really enjoy if I could just go home and figure this out,\u201d she told officers at one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">As her requests to \u201cjust go home\u201d kept getting ignored, she slouched on her chair at one point and muttered to herself: \u201cI hope my rental car is okay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">At one point in the video, a police officer reminds her she is crying on camera, to which she responds by looking at the camera and saying: \u201cHello, hi camera! Yeah, I\u2019m crying because he\u2019s not letting me call my f**king father even though they haven\u2019t proven s**t, and don\u2019t have any right for me to be able to contact my family or anyone that I want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newly released footage shows the drunk driver who killed a bride on her wedding night not worried about her victims &#8212;  instead crying over not being allowed to call her dad. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/57g3xWAL85\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/57g3xWAL85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TMZ\/status\/2085803065735631332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">At the end of 2024, Komoroski pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, felony DUI causing death, and two counts of felony DUI causing great bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The court found she had been driving with three times the legal alcohol limit in her blood when she crashed into the decorated golf cart that transported newlyweds Samantha Miller and Aric Hutchinson. She was driving at more than 100km\/h in a 40km\/h zone.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Samantha Miller, 34, died on her wedding day. Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Samantha Miller, 34, died on her wedding day. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Miller died at the scene, still in her wedding dress. Hutchinson survived but suffered multiple fractures and severe brain injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Komoroski was sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCan I call my dad? Can I get a phone call? Is that okay?\u201d She continuously ignored police\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,27518,36339,1559,3944,49325,19552,31046,19473,2082,42,1364,9858,185,9519,5511,3375,276717,17935,9062,117,16652,276718,43,2551,26765,675,24996,13181,22429,67902,418,40,38,41,39,15315,1299],"class_list":["post-562614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-asking","tag-bride","tag-called","tag-car","tag-dad","tag-driver","tag-drunk","tag-footage","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-her","tag-if","tag-is","tag-jamie","tag-just","tag-killed","tag-komoroski","tag-miller","tag-moments","tag-new","tag-newly","tag-newlywed","tag-news","tag-night","tag-okay","tag-police","tag-reaction","tag-released","tag-rental","tag-samantha","tag-shows","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wedding","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}