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Gene Kennedy/AP Reporting A 20-year-old woman turned herself in today, hours after a man was struck and killed while scraping his icy windshield in Salt Lake City.
Police spokeswoman Robin Snyder says the woman was accompanied by a lawyer. Police have her vehicle, a Toyota Camry.
Snyder says the woman is not in custody but charges are likely.
It started out as another normal Monday, the victim simply scraping the ice off his car. It happened at 10th West, close to 6th South.
The victim, Mason Haywood, was only 48 years-old. He leaves a wife and two children behind.
Snyder's car likely hit the man close to the driver's side as the vehicle was heading northbound. A portion of a side mirror was left here on scene and police have now analyzed that.
Mason Haywood was scraping ice off his car when he was hit. Neighbors heard the impact. Guillermo Hernandez's mother saw the victim's body lying in the street.
Guillermo Hernandez, neighbor: "She was pretty shaken up by this. She was debating whether or not to go to work. She's just been shaken up to see something tragic like this happen."
Meantime, the neighbors want a speed bump or additional stop signs. The posted speed limit here in 25 miles per hour, but residents say night after night it's someone's personal drag strip.
Neighbors say maybe if the person had been going 25 miles an hour, this could have been avoided.
Guillermo Hernandez, neighbor, "I don't know how he couldn't have seen him."
Sharlee Monaco, neighbor: "I went out and saw him laying in the street."
Haywood's family heard a thud. His wife ran to a neighbor's house to get help.
Guillermo Hernandez, neighbor: "She started freaking out, saying call 9-1-1 because her husband was just hit or something."
Neighbors say the death was senseless and potentially avoidable.
The road ends at 8th South, which is four blocks from here and there's only one stop sign in between. From the point where the road ends, north, to where there's a stop sign at 5th South, there is plenty of space to increase your speed.
Guillermo Hernandez: "My mom tried to push for a stop sign but the people she talked to said they couldn't put one in because it wasn't a through street."
Sharlee Monaco, neighbor: "They need to put a speed bump or something halfway between 5th and 7th, or something."
Sharlee Monaco believes if there was a speed bump, maybe a wife would still have her husband and maybe two kids would still have their father.
Police are reminding people to slow down, especially when the roads are snow packed and icy.
