A Wisconsin woman who allegedly tried to file a false insurance claim for her vehicle has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run.
Jenni Fischer, 24, was charged with hit-and-run involving great bodily harm on Dec. 10 in connection with a collision earlier this month that left a 26-year-old Lyft driver in a coma. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, police tracked down the suspect vehicle after Fischer allegedly tried to file an insurance claim on her Jeep SUV two days after the collision. In the claim, Fischer stated that she saw the right side of her vehicle “smashed,” with its windshield “cracked” and rearview mirror “broken” when she left her workplace and returned to the parking lot.
Surveillance video from the night of the crash, which allegedly showed Fischer’s Jeep as it “sideswiped” the Lyft driver, told a different story about the purported damage…