LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The driving force accused of hitting a Tesla with a Jeep on a mountain outdoors of Las Vegas and driving away has been recognized, in accordance with a Nevada State Police visitors crash report obtained by Information 3.
The suspected hit-and-run driver is 38-year-old Asya Hovhannisyan, who lives in Las Vegas, in accordance with the paperwork. She faces two civil infractions and a misdemeanor quotation, in accordance with courtroom information. The visitors violations are failing to lower pace or use care beneath sure circumstances and unsafe flip utilizing improper place or methodology at intersection. The prison grievance cost is responsibility to cease at scene of accident involving harm to car or different property which is pushed/attended.
Hovhannisyan is accused of hitting the Tesla on the Lee Canyon Street and Deer Creek Street intersection on Mt. Charleston on July 7. The Tesla sprint digicam recorded the affect. The Tesla stopped on the intersection round 1:10 p.m. when the Jeep Rubicon appeared to take a proper flip too large and crashed head-on into it.
The Tesla, pushed by Radu Stefan, reversed and rammed into the Jeep. The automobile continued accelerating ahead because it turned left onto Lee Canyon Street, and swerved into the mountain in addition to throughout the highway earlier than coming to a cease. When the Tesla reversed again to the intersection, the Jeep was gone.
Information 3first spoke with Stefanon July 12 and shared the sprint cam video, which circulated on-line with greater than 13 million impressions onCristen Drummond’s X web page.
The visitors report acknowledged a lead got here in on the identical day the story aired. Extra suggestions had been reported within the following days, together with on July 15 the place a lead helped the investigator receive the license plate variety of the Jeep. The trooper visited the registered proprietor’s handle and met a lady who acknowledged to the trooper that the particular person police had been in search of “was her son. She known as him,” and the trooper “organized to satisfy him at his workplace.”
On the workplace, police met a person and lady who, “had been clearly the 2 people in V1 (the jeep) primarily based on the video footage.” The investigator requested the duo, “in the event that they want to view the sprint digicam footage from the Tesla of the collision, they acknowledged no they already seen it.” Nonetheless, they had been nonetheless proven the video.
The report acknowledged that “acceptable enforcement motion was taken,” and on the finish of the report, it stated, “Case closed.”
“Our story, I feel, will show that issues could be mounted,” Stefan stated. “Due to you and the native tv Information 3 we had been capable of get some data from folks with coronary heart, and primarily based on these data, we submitted to the police, and so they had been like, in two days, three days, I feel they had been capable of determine the motive force.”
Stefan stated he and his spouse, Angela, had been relieved when a driver was recognized, however they proceed to get well bodily and emotionally from the crash.
“We had been on a curler coaster,” Stefan stated. “Coping with insurances and lots of uncertainty relating to what occurred to the automobile, what occurred to us.”
Information 3’s Cristen Drummond requested concerning the automobile accelerating ahead after the crash, “Do you suppose your foot hit the pedal? Or was it a potential malfunction on the automobile when it was hit?” Stefan stated, “So, at that second, I simply can not recall what occurred. I do know my foot was on the ground of the automobile. So, due to the very onerous affect, my spouse stated possibly I used to be attempting to step on the brake, and it slipped and touched the acceleration. I simply, I simply do not know.”
Stefan doesn’t plan to get well the Occasion Knowledge Recorder from the automobile. TheTesla websitestates, “The primary objective of an EDR is to file, in sure crash or close to crash-like conditions, reminiscent of an airbag deployment or hitting a highway impediment, knowledge to assist analyze the car standing and driving knowledge on the time of an accident and for use for post-accident trigger evaluation and duty willpower.”
Stefan stated the Tesla is now in possession of his insurance coverage firm. Stefan didn’t have full protection, liability-only. Nonetheless, he stated his insurance coverage was capable of file a declare with Hovhannisyan’s insurance coverage as soon as she was recognized.
“The automobile was thought of a complete loss,” Stefan stated. “The price of repairs was very excessive, so the insurance coverage firm determined to take it and compensated us. We simply acquired the cash immediately to get the automobile, an analogous automobile.”
Stefan stated he’s grateful for the group’s assist.
Information 3 tried to contact Hovhannisyan however didn’t obtain a response. Nonetheless, Victor Balian, who recognized himself because the passenger and proprietor of the Jeep, known as Cristen Drummond.
Balian stated Hovhannisyan drove away as a result of she was scared when the Tesla hit the Jeep after the preliminary affect. When requested why they did not name 911 after leaving the intersection, Balian stated, “We did not know what is going on on. We had been so confused from the hit.”
Balian stated they had been questioning if Stefan was attempting to kill them.
