{"id":41890,"date":"2024-02-10T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=41890"},"modified":"2024-02-10T19:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T00:19:30","slug":"lake-wales-woman-arrested-in-deadly-137-mph-dui-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/02\/10\/lake-wales-woman-arrested-in-deadly-137-mph-dui-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Wales Woman Arrested In Deadly 137 MPH DUI Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After an extensive traffic homicide investigation, which began on February 25, 2023, the Lake Wales Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for Jeanette Gonzalez of Lake Wales for DUI Manslaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Evidence confirmed Jeanette Gonzalez was behind the wheel, traveling at 137 miles per hour, seconds prior to impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her blood\/alcohol limit the night of the crash was 0.210. The legal limit is 0.08. On February 9, 2024, she was taken into custody by the Lake Wales Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonzalez was transported to the Polk County Jail Processing Center, where she was booked in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with the family of Eliecer Padilla who died in the crash. The lives of those involved in this crash have been forever changed. This is a grim reminder to never drive while impaired and to never operate a motor vehicle in a reckless manner,\u201d said LWPD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 02\/25\/2023, at 1:13 A.M., officers from the Lake Wales Police Department responded to a vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 27 in front of Weikert Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers found 38-year-old Eliecer Padilla of Lake Wales lying in the northbound lanes deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second occupant, 40-year-old Jeanette Gonzalez of Lake Wales, was also ejected from the 2015 Chevrolet Camaro and found lying in the median.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonzalez was airlifted to Lakeland Regional Medical Center with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From evidence on the scene and witness information, it was learned the 2015 Chevrolet Camaro was driving southbound on Highway 27 at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Camaro rear-ended a 2021 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Stephen Lakotich of Plainfield, Illinois, who was also traveling southbound on Highway 27 at the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rear-end impact, at a high rate of speed, caused the Camaro to begin flipping, which ejected both occupants of the car. No injuries were reported from the occupants of the Silverado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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