Two Florida teenagers are now facing vehicular homicide charges after what investigators describe as a high-speed street race that ended with a man dead and a family shattered. Police say the drivers pushed their cars past 90 m on a busy Cape Coral corridor, then left the scene while the victim’s SUV sat crumpled in the roadway. The case turns a familiar complaint about reckless driving into a stark criminal test of how far the law should reach when a race on public streets becomes a fatal crash.
The deadly race on Del Prado Boulevard
According to investigators, the chain of events began when two cars lined up on Del Prado Boulevard and accelerated to highway speeds on a city street that cuts through neighborhoods, businesses, and daily commuter traffic. Vehicle data later recovered by Cape Coral Police showed both cars topping 90 m in the moments before impact, a speed that effectively turned a routine left turn into a life-or-death gamble for an unsuspecting driver in a Chevrolet Equinox. In that instant, the abstract danger of “street racing” became a specific collision that police say could not be survived at such velocity.
Traffic homicide investigators reconstructed the crash and concluded that a white Ford Mustang slammed into the passenger side of the Equinox at high speed, then spun out and hit another vehicle, a sequence that left debris scattered across Del Prado and a Florida man fatally injured inside his SUV. Police video later released to the public shows two cars racing down Del Prado, their headlights streaking past fixed cameras before the frame fills with the chaos of the crash. For me, the stark contrast between the controlled environment of a drag strip and the cluttered reality of a city arterial is the point that lingers: this was not an isolated back road, it was a shared space where one driver’s thrill ride became another family’s tragedy.
From investigation to vehicular homicide charges
In the months after the crash, Cape Coral Police Department Traffic Homicide Investigators treated the scene not as a routine wreck but as a potential crime. They pulled data from the Ford Mustang and the other car, analyzed skid marks and impact angles, and matched surveillance footage with witness accounts to build a timeline of the race. That work culminated when, on Monday, Cape Coral Police Department Traffic Homicide Investigators located and arrested both drivers, a step that signaled the department’s view that this was not simply bad luck at an intersection but a criminally reckless decision to race on a public road.
The two drivers, identified in police reports as Milano Paolo Hlavina and Jeremy Olivo, were arrested on vehicular homicide charges tied directly to the fatal crash on Del Prado Boulevard. Both are described as Two Cape Coral teens, a detail that underscores how quickly adolescent bravado behind the wheel can escalate into adult felony counts. Investigators say the pair chose to race, accelerated to more than 90 m, and then, after the Mustang hit the Equinox, left the scene instead of staying to help or speak with officers. In the language of Florida’s vehicular homicide statute, that combination of speed, racing, and flight from the crash site is what transforms a traffic violation into a homicide case.
What the video and data reveal about speed and impact
As I read through the investigative details, the most chilling elements are not the legal terms but the raw physics. Vehicle data obtained during the investigation showed the Ford Mustang traveling at extreme speed just before it struck the Equinox, a side impact that concentrated force on the most vulnerable part of the SUV. The Mustang’s momentum was so great that after hitting the passenger side of the Equinox at high speed, it spun and crashed into another vehicle, a violent chain reaction that left multiple cars damaged and the roadway littered with wreckage. That sequence, captured in part on police video, strips away any illusion that this was a minor miscalculation…