A Florida man is facing multiple charges after allegedly leaving the scene of one crash, hopping into another vehicle and crashing a second time, all within a matter of minutes.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said both crashes happened in Plant City on Tuesday, November 10. In an Instagram Reel, the sheriff’s office said deputies were called out after 36-year-old Brayan Mayen allegedly “failed to yield at a stop sign and caused a crash involving another vehicle and multiple Tampa Electric Company (TECO) utility poles.”
By the time officers arrived, Mayen was gone. They alleged he “fled the scene on foot before getting into a vehicle driven by a family member and taking off.” WFLA reported that the family member who picked him up was Mayen’s wife, and the sheriff’s office told the outlet that the pair wound up in a ditch just half a mile from the first crash site…