April 17\u00a0crash<\/a> killed 60-year-old Guy Scott. Nearly four months later, Officer George Isabel was charged with reckless driving.<\/p>\nDash camera video obtained exclusively by NBC6 captured the moment of impact. The video, as released, includes a blurred box covering Scott at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n
Body camera video also captures witnesses and officers reacting immediately after the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know where the [expletive] he came out of,\u201d someone can be heard saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs he alive?\u201d an officer asks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know,\u201d Isabel responds.<\/p>\n
As first responders rushed toward Scott, Isabel and witnesses could be heard trying to make sense of what had happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn ambulance is coming here. Did you see everything that happened though, him coming out?” Isabel asks.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah,\u201d the witness responds.<\/p>\n
“You guys saw him come out?\u201d\u00a0Isabel asks.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah,” the witness says.<\/p>\n
“So just stay here, obviously we are just going to need witnesses. I was the one driving,” Isabel says.<\/p>\n
Scott later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe family of a man who was killed while on his e-bike in Coral Springs is speaking out. NBC6’s Lena Salzbank reports\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
An arrest affidavit is now shedding new light on how fast investigators say Isabel was driving before the crash.<\/p>\n
Florida Highway Patrol investigators said Isabel was traveling between 71 and 92 mph at times on a road where the speed limit is 35 mph.<\/p>\n
In the hours after the crash, multiple witnesses told NBC6 they saw the police SUV speeding.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor such a well-lit area, it\u2019s just hard for me to understand how exactly he collided with the Tahoe if the Tahoe wasn\u2019t going an exceptional speed. A light right where it happened. A streetlight right where it happened,\u201d\u00a0one\u00a0neighbor said back in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Isabel was heading toward the area of a vehicle police were looking for.<\/p>\n
A Coral Springs detective told investigators a tracker on that vehicle had become active. That information was passed along to Isabel so he could drive to the area.<\/p>\n
A witness told investigators Isabel did not have his emergency lights or sirens activated.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Isabel was driving at a \u201chigh rate of speed\u201d and that \u201ca collision could not be avoided.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott\u2019s wife told NBC6 days after the crash that safety was always top of mind for her husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoom, my husband went in the bike. His bike was a strong and heavy electric bike,\u201d Lyane Mendoca said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Scott was wearing a helmet with a blinking red light that night.<\/p>\n
FHP found probable cause to charge Isabel with felony vehicular homicide. The Broward State Attorney\u2019s Office ultimately decided to pursue a lesser charge of misdemeanor reckless driving.<\/p>\n
In a memo sent to NBC6, prosecutors said video, witness statements and physical evidence showed Isabel was driving recklessly.<\/p>\n
However, prosecutors said in the memo Isabel \u201cwas not determined to be the sole cause of the crash\u201d because Scott \u201cshould not have made the turn onto the roadway when he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following a\u00a0Monday morning\u00a0hearing in Broward County court, NBC6 spoke with Isabel\u2019s defense attorney, Joshua Rydell.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy. When someone loses their life, it\u2019s a tragedy,\u201d Rydell said.<\/p>\n
Rydell pointed to an initial crash report estimating Isabel was traveling 55 mph, slower than the speeds investigators ultimately determined.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a little inconsistent in terms of what FHP has put out in regarding their investigation of this case,\u201d Rydell said.<\/p>\n
Rydell said Isabel is innocent of the reckless driving charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficer Isabel has spent his entire career focused on protecting the community, and we firmly believe when all the facts and circumstances come out, he\u2019s going to be exonerated of this offense,\u201d Rydell said.<\/p>\n
The Coral Springs Police Department told NBC6 they\u2019re aware of the charge and the officer is currently on restrictive assignment. \u00a0<\/p>\n
We reached out to the family\u2019s attorney and are still waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly released video shows the moment a man riding an electric scooter collided with a marked Coral Springs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,2033],"class_list":["post-421569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-only-on-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421569","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=421569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}