Esteysi Sanchez drove with a man’s corpse embedded in her windshield in a gruesome hit-and-run that took place early Monday morning in Oceanside, Calif., police said.
(WashingtonPost)- The 29-year-old, who also goes by the name of Stacy Sanchez, according to her Facebook page, was driving home from a marathon night of drinking at several different bars in her hometown, Oceanside, when she collided with a pedestrian, police said.
“From what I understand, she was out partying all night and was on the way home,” Sgt. Jeff Brandt of the Oceanside Police told The Washington Post.
The driver’s teal Pontiac sedan was moving so fast and the impact was so forceful that one of the man’s legs was ripped from his torso at the waist, flew through the back window and landed on the trunk of her car, KNSD reported.
The rest of his body slammed into the front windshield, shattering it and leaving him “impaled into the vehicle,” according to Brandt. He crashed through the window such that the top of his head rested on the passenger seat while his body remain lodged in the jagged hole in the windshield.
The driver continued — with the man’s body in the car and his severed leg on vehicle’s trunk — for another .75 miles, riding along the sidewalk at one point and crashing through residential landscaping, before coming to rest in a cul-de-sac, where she parked the car, got out and walked to her nearby house, KGTV reported.
When she arrived home, her husband contacted paramedics and the Oceanside Police Department.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.