The dash cam footage captures it in real time. A residential street. A black Chevrolet Silverado pulls out from the right side of the road directly into the path of an oncoming motorcycle. The rider has no time to break, no time to swerve, no time to do anything except collide with a vehicle that should not have been there. The motorcycle strikes the truck and the rider is thrown. Then the Silverado accelerates. It speeds away from the crash, crossing into the opposite lane [music] and nearly hitting the vehicle with the dash cam head-on as it flees. The rider is on the ground. His name is Jackson. [music] He is wearing a helmet he cannot remove because his neck needs to be stabilized. He cannot breathe [music] properly. He does not know what happened. He does not know that [music] the person who hit him is currently running through a culde-sac three blocks away, trying to outrun a decision she has [music] made four times before. Officers arrive to find Jackson on the ground with his helmet still on. >> I can't take it off right now. >> Hey buddy, just stand still. Okay, >> just stand still. >> Just lay right there. Don't move. Okay, >> we'll get your helmet off in just a second. It's yours. Okay. What happened? >> Black truck right on the left. turned >> turned into here. >> Just took off. >> A nurse who happened to be driving [music] past had stopped and was stabilizing his neck with her hands, holding his head [music] still, telling him not to move. >> Down here, [music] go all the way down here. There's a culde-sac. She's in a green shirt. Okay. >> Hey, Dean. I'm going to go grab her. >> Are you a nurse? >> I am. >> Hey, boss. What's your name? Can you you tell us your name? >> Jackson. >> Jackson. >> Jackson what? >> Jackson kept saying he could not breathe. The officer knelt beside him. We're going to get that helmet off in just a second. We need to stabilize your neck first. [music] That's really important. Take a couple deep breaths for me. >> I can't breathe. >> We're going to get that helmet off in just a second. We got to stabilize your neck first. That's really important. Okay. So, in the meantime, I just need you to take a couple deep breaths for me. >> While one officer stayed [music] with Jackson, another received the description over the radio. Black truck, driver fled, white female, [music] green shirt, blonde hair. >> You know, one in the crash, took off in a black truck, green shirt, blonde hair. 135 in Rap check for >> she in the car or she's on foot. [music] >> On foot, an officer spotted her in a culde-sac three blocks from the crash. She was pacing. She was on her phone. A neighbor had watched her whip the Silverado into the culde-sac, [music] get out, and start walking as if the truck behind her had nothing to do with the motorcycle rider bleeding on the pavement. She's off foot. The officer approached. Stop. Police. Put your hands behind [music] your back. Elizabeth's first word was not an apology. It was not concern for the rider. It was a denial. [music] It's not me. >> Hey, stop. Police. >> Sh. Behind your back. >> It's not me. It's >> not you. It's who? >> Huh? >> Then without pause, my husband just ran to his house. [music] I was not driving. >> What's your name? >> Elizabeth. My husband was driving. >> Elizabeth. My husband My husband just ran to his house. My house. >> Okay. >> I was not driving. >> Okay. >> She was a white female in a green shirt [music] standing three blocks from a hit and run next to a black Silverado that matched the dash cam footage. [music] And her opening argument was, "My husband did it." In handcuffs beside [music] the patrol car, Elizabeth repeated her story like a mantra. My husband [music] was driving. I was a passenger. My husband was the [music] driver. She said it to every officer who approached. >> Why you making me run? >> Because my husband was driving the scene and he knew I was going to get in trouble. >> Right. >> Right. Right. What? >> I said right. I acknowledged you. >> My husband was driving. >> Okay. >> I just called my husband. I asked why he he ran. >> That's all. That's all. I >> Come on. >> All right. You You got the wrong person. >> Okay. >> My husband My husband I'm sorry. He [music] ran the scene. He hit somebody. >> Okay. >> Why is Okay. >> I said I hear you. Okay. >> My husband ran the >> Stop talking. I don't care right now. >> Mike, >> let's go. >> Mark. Mike. My husband. >> I heard you. >> Then why don't you believe me? >> Cuz everybody said that they saw a white female green shirt running from the vehicle. Guess what? You're a white female wearing a green shirt. >> I was a passenger. >> Have a seat. >> I was a passenger. >> Have a seat. >> I was a passenger. >> Get your arms in. >> My husband was a driver. >> Okay. >> No. Go ahead. >> Stop. Stop playing. >> I'm a >> She said it as if repetition could overwrite the dash cam footage and the witness statements and the green [music] shirt that matched the description broadcast over the radio. The officer responded with a kind of calm logic that destroys a lie without raising a voice. Everybody said they saw a white female [music] green shirt running from the vehicle. Guess what? You're a white female wearing a green shirt. A neighbor confirmed it. She had watched Elizabeth whip the Silverado into the [music] culde-sac, get out, and start pacing on her phone. She was by herself. [music] No husband, no passenger, just a woman in a green shirt trying to create distance between herself and a motorcycle rider whose aorta [music] was rupturing three blocks away. >> So, what'd you see? >> I saw her pull up and she whipped it down the culac real quick and I'm like, "Okay, maybe it's just someone going down there." And then I didn't think anything of it. Well, then I saw her out here pacing and I looked and I looked at her. I said, "Holy shit." >> Was there anybody else with her? >> She was by herself. And that's definitely her that I walked back up with. Green shirt >> cuz she started to walk this way and she was on her phone. She took off right back. >> Can I get a written statement from me? >> Yeah, I'll get my walk. >> All right. [music] >> So, I go to his house to make sure he wasn't with her. >> He wasn't, but I'll get photos of the truck. >> Want me to go to that house then? Probably not. >> I was just walking by herself. >> No, you didn't hit anything. >> All right. Where was he coming from? >> Black truck from down there. Motorcycles from down there >> and then all of a sudden a motorcycle. Did the truck hit him? >> Yeah. >> Did the motorcycle hit your car? >> Yeah. It got pushed into the daylight. >> Okay. So, you're involved in that truck. >> Yeah. Yeah. We've got her. >> Did you see all this, too? >> That's 100% her. I didn't see her truck in there, but >> my partner's going to grab a statement from you. I got to run her back up to the street and partner will be right back up with you. Okay. >> The officer told Elizabeth what he observed. Dilated eyes, slurred speech, the odor of alcohol. He asked if she wanted to perform [music] field sobriety tests. She said yes. >> Hey, so here's the deal, okay? I suspect you're under the influence of alcohol based upon the odor, your reaction, and everything you were talking to me, sluring your words, okay? Your eyes are dilated. It's a clear sign you're under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Okay. Do you want to do any field sobriety test with us? >> Yes. >> You do? >> All right. Go and step out for me. >> Can you call my head >> after everything's done? I'm not calling him right now. [music] >> He removed the handcuffs. She asked to call her husband. He said after. [music] Then he asked about marks on her arms. She said the airbag. >> All right. I'm going to take these off, but if you run on me, we're going to have issues. Okay. What's up with all these marks on your arm? >> What marks? >> All these from the airbag. [clears throat and snorts] >> She admitted to [music] drinking at Buffalo Wild Wings since 4:00 in the afternoon. two tall yuanglings, a double shot of vodka, and then [music] almost as an afterthought, I smoked a blunt maybe two hours ago. Beer, vodka, and marijuana behind the wheel of a [music] Silverado on a residential street where a motorcyclist was riding home. >> All right, I'm going to run you through some tests. All right, >> I'm going to put my pen out. You got to look at the tip and the tip only. Okay, >> how much you have to drink today? >> Two drinks. >> Two drinks. What time did you start drinking now? 4:00. >> 4:00. Where were we drinking at? >> Buffalo Wildings. >> Buffalo Wild Wings. Okay. Were they two small glasses? Big glasses? >> Short. >> Short. Okay. What'd you drink? Beer. >> Yeah. Drink your choice. What type of beer? >> Uh, a beer and then uh a shot of vodka. >> What size? That big. Two of those for 4:00. And a shot of what again? I'm sorry. >> Shot of vodka. I didn't I didn't say what of. Did you hear me? >> I was asking what. >> I said a shot of Right. A shot of vodka. >> Okay. That's what I was asking. >> Double short. >> Double short >> or a double. And then a shot of yingling or a tall ying. >> So, two tall ying llings, a double shot of >> I said, did I say two talls? >> I'm clarifying. I'm asking you. >> No. Did I say two tall? >> Lower your voice. >> Let's just go. >> Get up. >> All right. Go ahead and put your feet together. Heels together. Toes together. Arms down to your side. >> All right. We're going to step over here in front of my car. >> This is his car. or he's technically involved because the truck pushed the bike into him. Long hair. Unit one pushed unit two into unit 3. Unit 3 is him. >> Okay. >> Old man in the tan coat maybe has a dash cam that maybe caught it. >> Okay. >> Hyundai right here is a nurse that stopped to give aid. This guy was looking left to see about turning in traffic, turning to go eastbound. The motorcycle went right past him. He was still looking left and then he just saw it come flying back. I'm going to start getting witness statements for all of them. >> You have anything on you poke me, stick me, or hurt me while we're doing this? Okay. Go ahead and turn around back at the window. Just going to pass you down. Make sure you got nothing on you. >> Can my [music] husband take his vehicle? >> Nope. We're towing it. >> All right, everyone that I told had to stay, I'm going to be bringing you over one at a time to give me a statement as to what you saw or didn't see. After you do that, you can leave. >> All right, go ahead and kick this foot up. >> Don't kick you? [music] >> Yeah. >> I'm going to kick you. >> Did I do anything before you kick me? >> Did I kick you? >> Yeah, you did. >> Okay, relax. Go around. Turn around for me. The field sobriety [music] tests became a battle. Officer versus suspect, pen [music] versus attitude. Elizabeth interrupted every instruction. She told [music] the officer she was a medical student. She told him she knew exactly [music] what the horizontal gaze nestagmas test measured. >> All right, follow my pen with your eyes and your eyes only. I know you're trying to ch test for an eye balance and I'm not >> horizontal gaze and I stagnos. >> Yeah, I get it. I'm a medical student. I know it. >> Okay, so you know exactly what I'm doing. >> Know [music] exactly. >> She told him she had not failed. He had not finished the test. She was declaring results before the examination was complete. [music] The officer warned her, "If you keep arguing, we're going to terminate [music] the test and you're going to go as a refusal." >> And I know I've I've approved that while you're doing this. I haven't failed this. >> Okay? If you keep arguing with me, we're going to terminate the test and you're going to go as a refusal. >> Okay? You cooperate with me. [music] >> Then I' I've passed this, right? >> No, I'm not done. Let me go through these tests. Otherwise, I'm marking down the visual test. >> Feet together, arms down to your side. Don't move from this position till I tell you to do otherwise. >> Yes, sir. >> She kept [music] arguing. She claimed she was shaking because she was cold, not because she was impaired. >> Yeah. Well, you're shaking, right? He's shaking. >> He's [music] shaking. He's shaking though. >> All right. Are you going to cooperate during these tests or not? >> I am going to cooperate. >> Okay. One more out. >> You already do one test. >> One more and you're refusing. Okay. >> You already do one test with the shaking. When another officer nearby [music] mentioned that cold weather causes shaking, she seized on it like a lifeline. [music] See, that officer said, "If he's cold, he's going to shake." The officer reached [music] his limit. >> And I just ran after you. >> So I can't shake his cold. Oh, thank you. Is that what you said? >> Is that what you said? >> You just keep back. You're helping yourself with the camera footage. >> Are we done? >> Yep. One more outburst. >> So that officer said that if this guy is cold, he's going to shake. Thank you. Go ahead. >> You just have to follow my pen. >> Yeah, you got it. >> Your eyes. >> You got it. And I That's what I did in the first test. Did I not do >> I'm done. Stop yelling at me. >> Told you. Stop yelling at me. >> Did I do that first test that you just did? >> The test is not over. >> Oh my god. >> Did I stop? No. The test is not over. Are you ready? >> Yep. Arms down to your side. Don't lean on my car. >> You got it. >> Wow, you're shaking, [music] right? >> Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. >> Elizabeth refused. No, no, no. I'm not doing this. She resisted. [music] She pushed back. >> Well, you're shaking, right? >> Sorry. Put your hands in the back. >> No, no, no. >> The officer [music] told her she was resisting. She was arrested and walked to the patrol car while arguing that shaking is not a sign of impairment and that the entire process was unfair. >> He was shaking. I will do it. >> I promise. I promise at this point. Stop. >> He was shaking. You were shaking just like you're shaking right now. I can feel you. >> Okay, let's go. >> Are you not going to admit to it? >> My car. Get You better back up and get in my car. Rear back on me again. Get in a charge. Ask words for a shaking. Right. You shed three times [music] with my >> At the jail, the breath test introduced its own complications. Elizabeth was chewing [music] gum. The officer needed her mouth empty for 30 minutes before administering the breathalyzer. She said she swallowed [music] the gum. The officer said, "You just wasted 30 more minutes of your time, not mine. Open your mouth. Show me the gum, Elizabeth. >> I just swallowed it. [clears throat] Okay. What's wrong? >> I just swallowed it. >> Lift your tongue up. >> Tongue up. Tongue up to the roof of your mouth. Okay, >> that's fine. You just wasted 30 more minutes of your time, not mine. >> She responded with two contradictory sentences separated by approximately 4 seconds. [music] I am not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. End quote. Then [music] I smoked a blunt maybe 2 hours ago. >> I am not under influence or alcohol or drugs. Okay. >> I smoked a blunt maybe 2 hours ago. >> I am not influence with her chewing her gum. Oh, you spit it out because I was chewing the same format. Thank you. >> Thank [music] you. No, I saw you chewing gum. Were you not chewing gum? It doesn't matter. >> No, it does. [music] >> Shut up and sit out, okay? You don't run the show here. >> I do. >> If you cooperate, you'll be out of here pretty quick. But the more you waste my time, the longer you're here, and you're going to sit in Green County Jail until your husband can get you. I'm not playing games. You almost killed somebody on a motorcycle. I get you don't care. >> No, I do care. >> But that kid could be dead. >> You think I don't care? Clearly by your actions you don't. >> I do care. >> So stop. Let's just cooperate. >> Don't tell me I don't care. Okay. >> All right. DON'T TELL ME I don't care. I do. >> Are you going to do the breath test? >> Don't tell me I don't care. Yeah, I'll do. I'm not refusing. >> Perfect. So remember the whole gum thing? [music] That was just to be able to take this test. So I got to have your mouth empty for 30 minutes. Okay. It's been over [music] 30 minutes now since you told me the Sally Port had gum that you swallowed. All right. So, when you do this, you're going to breathe as hard [music] as you can for as long as you can. I'm going to say keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. And when [music] I say stop, that's when you can stop breathing. All right, go ahead. >> She blew into the breathalyzer. [music] The number came back.172. More than double the legal limit of 08. The officer read the result and then told Elizabeth something that transformed the charges from misdemeanors into felonies. [music] So, you've had more than four OVIs within the last 10 [music] years. So, after we do this breath test, it's going to be a felony. Five OVI in 10 [music] years. Five times in a decade, Elizabeth had been caught operating a vehicle under the influence. >> Big breath. Start breathing. [music] Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Harder. Harder. Harder. Harder. Harder. Keep going. Keep going. [music] Keep going. Keep going. Harder. Harder. harder. As hard as you can. Keep [music] going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Don't keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Go go go go go go go go go go go go go. Keep going. It's not getting it all. Oh, there we go. I got it. [clears throat] We got to do it twice so it averages your two. Go. Take a big breath. There you go. Oh, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. You're good. You're good. You're good. Oh, [laughter] >> you got [music] into it. All right. [music] So, you've been totally cooperative with me. Okay. We got to do some paperwork. Okay. Unfortunately, you are going to jail tonight. Okay. I'm going to be cool and let you talk [music] to your husband. Your breath sample, you're 172. Okay. The limit is 08. So, [music] you are more than double the legal limit on a breath sample. Okay. But go ahead and have a seat. I'll hand you your phone. You can talk to your husband. Go ahead. Have a seat back in that same chair, please. Here's your phone. So, you're going to see a judge in the morning. They're only deciding if you're going to come back to court. Okay? They're not there to punish you right now. They're there to make sure you come back to court. It's going to be through Fairborn Municipal Court, but you're going to Green County Jail. >> Mhm. >> All right. Five times the system had processed her the [music] arrest, the booking, the court date, the fine, the license suspension, [music] the probation. Five times she had gone through every step and then gotten behind the wheel again with alcohol in her bloodstream. The officer [music] told her the truth about what she had done that evening. You almost killed [music] somebody on a motorcycle. Elizabeth's response was immediate and loud. You [music] think I don't care? The officer said clearly by your actions. You don't. She [music] screamed. Don't tell me I don't care. I do care. She cared enough to scream. [music] She did not care enough to call an Uber from Buffalo Wild Wings after two tall yuinglings, a double shot [music] of vodka, and a blunt. Jackson underwent emergency surgery at the hospital. His aorta had ruptured the largest artery in the [music] human body. A stent was placed to stop the massive internal bleeding. He suffered two broken [music] bones in his forearm and a broken fibula. He survived. [music] He has no memory of the crash. He does not remember the Silverado pulling out. He does not remember the impact. He does not remember lying on the pavement [music] asking an officer to remove his helmet while a nurse held his neck still. His body carries [music] the scars of a crash that his mind has erased. Elizabeth was charged with felony aggravated vehicular assault, felony ovie, her fifth [music] in 10 years felony hit and run causing serious injury and resisting arrest. She blamed her husband. Every witness said she was alone. She swallowed her gum to delay the breath test. She told the officer she was a medical student who understood the tests. She said she did not care and then [music] screamed that she did care. She did everything except the one thing that would have prevented all of it not driving. Five times the same choice, five different [music] nights across 10 years, five sets of handcuffs, five booking photos, five court [music] dates. And on the fifth night, a motorcyclist named Jackson was riding home when a black Silverado pulled [music] out in front of him. And the driver who should have lost her license after the first offense was still behind the wheel on [music] the fifth. Jackson survived. He will carry the broken bones [music] and the ruptured aorta and the absence of memory for the rest of his life. Elizabeth will [music] carry the felonies. And somewhere on a dash cam in Green County, Ohio, [music] 2 seconds of footage show the moment a truck pulls into the path of a motorcycle 2 [music] seconds that contain every consequence that followed and that should have been prevented four offenses ago. [music] >> [music]