VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – New body-camera footage has been released after a truck reportedly drove through a toll booth onto a Volusia County beach, killing a toll worker in the process.
According to investigators, the crash happened on Monday afternoon at the Dunlawton Avenue beach access ramp in Daytona Beach Shores.
At the time, a pickup truck struck the nearby toll booth before continuing onto the beach and into the ocean, deputies said.
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The driver, identified as 36-year-old Deanna Harrell of Ormond Beach, was soon detained, and Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said that witnesses reported Harrell had tried to drive south on the beach before the truck got stuck in sand.
Meanwhile, the toll attendant in the booth, identified as 63-year-old Tammie Jo Baker, was killed.
“I think she was probably close to being killed on impact,” Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said. “That booth isn’t made of anything, if you look at it. And you hit that thing at 40 miles an hour; there’s really nowhere to go. And it flipped the booth around, the force of that.”
Later Monday evening, deputies said that Harrell had been taken into custody under Florida’s Baker Act as the homicide investigation continues.
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Court records show that Harrell was placed under a temporary risk protection order after allegedly threatening to end her own life last year. That order was apparently set to expire in July.
In body-camera footage released on Tuesday, witnesses can be heard saying that Harrell smells like “alcohol” as a deputy walks up to her on the beach following the crash.
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Deputies are then seen placing her in handcuffs before walking her to the back of a patrol car.
“Can you please not record this?” Harrell can be heard saying.
“I can just tell you, being up at the truck, there’s a heavy odor — for me — a heavy odor of alcohol you can smell from the passenger side of the vehicle," Chitwood stated on Monday. “We’ll see how that works out.”