A 27-year-old Chicago woman was given a four-year sentence for causing a high-speed crash on Lake Shore Drive that killed a rideshare passenger and then fleeing the scene. Jalisa Woolfolk later Googled information about the crash, and prosecutors used those searches as evidence when they charged her more than two and a half years after the March 25, 2023, collision in Uptown.
Prosecutors said an Uber driver was traveling south on Lake Shore Drive near Montrose Avenue with Stephan Piven, 34, riding in the back seat of the Nissan Rogue. Woolfolk was speeding behind them in a white 2023 Kia Forte bearing a Zipcar logo.
Data recovered from the Kia allegedly showed Woolfolk was traveling 81 mph — twice the posted limit — moments before she struck the Uber with such force that the rideshare vehicle spun, flipped, became airborne, and landed on its roof. The Uber driver managed to escape the wreckage, but Piven was trapped inside. Firefighters extricated him from the overturned vehicle, but he succumbed to his injuries at a nearby hospital…