ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — New body camera video shows the moments after a DUI crash in St. Augustine from early January.
After the crash on Jan. 7, 21-year-old Shannon King is facing reckless driving and DUI charges. She is accused of hitting two women near the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.
Riley McGovern and Addie Meyers were hit by the car and are still recovering in the hospital. Flagler College confirmed to First Coast News, Meyers plays on the school's women's soccer team.
First responders were able to reach the victims moments after the crash happened around 1:56 a.m. as St. Augustine Police Department officers and St. Johns County Sheriff's Office deputies were already in the area.
Video shows a deputy drive up to a stopped silver sedan as King is getting out of the driver's door just moments after deputies say she hit Meyers and McGovern.
Deputies say King was driving fast on Avenida Menendez when she drove through a curve in the road and into the parking lot.
“I remember seeing that car over there, probably a drunk f****** driver hit that girl in the pink shirt. I only saw her body fly I did not see the second girl get hit," a witness said to a deputy.
Deputies spoke to several witnesses, including a woman who was friends with Meyers and McGovern.
“I pushed one of my friends out of the way," the woman said.
“It [the car] completely hit Riley and Addie and they both went flying in the air."
While deputies spoke to witnesses on one side of the parking lot.
A deputy talked to King on the other end.
“I’m not going to hide stuff from you,” the deputy told King. “I’m sure you’re concerned so that’s why I’m telling you their condition is serious, the deputy added.
In the incident report, a deputy described smelling alcohol on King's breath. She gave two breath samples, blowing double the legal limit both times.
Three hours after the crash, with handcuffs on in what appears to be a police car, she asked a deputy about the victims.
“You guys still don’t have an update on the people that were hit?"
“They’re still listed as critical," the deputy said.
"OK," King said.
The attorneys representing McGovern and Meyers said McGovern was hurt pushing her friend out of the way of the incoming car and that she was put into a medically induced coma.
King received two additional felony reckless driving charges last week.