The Brief
- Lindsey Isaacs was falsely accused of causing a crash that killed 3 people on October 4, 2025.
- She spent 13 days in jail for a crime she didn’t commit, but says that isn’t the only traumatic part of her story.
ORLANDO, Fla. – A Florida woman who spent nearly two weeks in jail after being wrongly accused in a fatal hit-and-run crash has filed a civil lawsuit against the Florida Highway Patrol and says she wants answers about how the mistake occurred.
Lindsey Isaacs was arrested and charged in connection with a crash that killed Joaquin Deno, Jorge Salinas and Nancy Salinas. Authorities seized her vehicle and, months later, instructed her to surrender on hit-and-run charges.
The accusation
The backstory:
Troopers showed up first at Lindsey Isaacs’ parents house and told them she’d been involved in a fatal crash. Her parents thought she’d been killed.…