Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Chuck Hasty today said no preliminary details of that study have been released.
The reconstruction team was at the crash site, located at the intersection of East Tenth Street and Becker Drive, last Tuesday, using surveying equipment to plot key coordinates at the scene.
Hasty said there still has to be inspection of the vehicles involved before a determination is made on whether charges will be filed in the death of 25-year-old Leslie Fishel. “We have to find the facts. It's an open investigation. We are trying to determine what happened. We will be consulting the district attorney before any charges are made.”
The preliminary report filed Friday by Sergeant Richard White of the city's police department shows a total of four vehicles were involved in the crash, which occurred shortly after 5 p.m. that Saturday.
White's report notes that Marquis Jarvis Whitmore, 26, of Sugarberry Road, Roanoke Rapids, was driving a 2013 Toyota owned by Hertz Vehicles LLC out of Charlotte while Fishel was driving a 2000 Honda.
Others involved in the crash were Eboni Burgess of Roanoke Rapids who was driving a 2013 Toyota and Howard Shearin of Roanoke Rapids who was driving a 2014 Toyota.
The narrative of White's report says Whitemore was traveling south on Highway 125 — Tenth Street — “at an extremely high rate of speed in the left turn lane.”
Fishel, according to the narrative, had the green light and was proceeding through the intersection east when Whitemore entered the intersection against a red light, striking Fishel's vehicle. Whitemore's vehicle flipped on its side and crashed into Burgess's vehicle that was sitting at the red light in lane 2 heading north.
Shearing, according to the report, was coming to the light north in lane 1 and was struck by Whitemore on the driver's side. Fishel was ejected from her vehicle and died later.
Charges are pending the reconstruction of the crash, the report said.