Nick Hogan arrested for street racing in August car crash
Nick Hogan Bollea turned himself in to the police today and was arrested. The charges stem from the accident which put his passenger, Marine John Graziano, in the hospital with serious brain damage.
Bollea, 17, was at the wheel of a speeding yellow Toyota Supra that went out of control and slammed, rear-bumper first, into a palm tree in the median on Court Street, officials say. The wreck critically injured Bollea’s friend and passenger, 22-year-old John Graziano. The Supra, which was owned by Bollea’s famous father, was totaled (see photo from the crash at right).
Reckless driving with serious bodily injury is a third-degree felony. In addition to that charge, authorities cited Bollea with using a motor vehicle in commission of a felony, being a driver under 21 operating a vehicle with a breath-alcohol level of .02 percent or higher and having illegal window tinting. The blood-alcohol level at which Florida law presumes a driver to be impaired is .08 percent.
Police said today that Bollea’s car was going faster than 60 mph at the time of the crash. The speed limit on that stretch of road is 40 mph.
Authorities have said from the start that speed was a factor in the crash. In the days after the wreck, witnesses told the Times and investigators that they saw Bollea’s Supra racing a silver Dodge Viper on the rain-slick road moments before the crash.
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