An Italian man is facing serious charges after fleeing the scene of a Miami motorcycle crash that killed his passenger, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Vito Cacciapaglia, 25, was arrested Friday on charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and vehicular homicide in a reckless manner, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 4:25 p.m. Thursday at Northeast 3rd Avenue and Northeast 54th Street, when Cacciapaglia was operating a Kawasaki motorcycle recklessly and performing a wheelie when he lost control, the report said.<\/p>\n
Cacciapaglia and his passenger fell into the roadway as the motorcycle slid and struck a BMW X5, the report said.<\/p>\n
Police said Cacciapaglia was seen fleeing the scene on foot.<\/p>\n
Miami Fire Rescue responded and brought the motorcycle passenger to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition and pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined the motorcycle was registered to a nearby address and when officers responded they met a man who said his roommate returned with injuries to his side and “appeared to be in an altered state of mind,” the report said.<\/p>\n
The man said the roommate told him he was going to Jackson Memorial Hospital, and when officers responded they found Cacciapaglia in the emergency room, the report said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage from a nearby gas station showed a man matching the description of Cacciapaglia operating the motorcycle just before the crash, the report said.<\/p>\n
Cacciapaglia appeared in bond court by video from a hospital bed on Monday, where Judge Mindy Glazer expressed concerns about him being a flight risk due to his Italian citizenship.<\/p>\n
Glazer set his bond at $100,000, ordered him to surrender his passport, and told him not to drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Italian man is facing serious charges after fleeing the scene of a Miami motorcycle crash that killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,123],"class_list":["post-386451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}