A Wisconsin woman was arrested last week after she was involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a Lyft driver in a coma — and then filed a false police report claiming HER vehicle was hit by a hit-and-run driver.
Jenni Fischer, 24, was arrested on December 10 and charged with hit-and-run involving great bodily harm and making a fraudulent insurance claim, WITI reported.
A criminal complaint in the Lyft driver’s crash says that Milwaukee Police responded to the scene just after 8:30 p.m. on December 1. The 26-year-old man was “not conscious but was breathing” and had “severe trauma” to his head. He was transported to a hospital, where underwent two surgeries and was “in a coma, but his condition is worsening,” December 10 court documents said.
Police said the side door of his white Nissan Sentra was “mangled and crushed backwards,” as if it had been sideswiped. Evidence from the suspect vehicle was found at the scene — as was surveillance video that showed a white or gray SUV with only its running light on hit the Lyft driver.
After determining that vehicle was. Jeep Compass, investigators set about looking for insurance claims on such a vehicle — and found one made December 3, two days after the crash, on a Jeep Compas with a vehicle identification number that traced back to Fischer.
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