A 25-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with aggravated DUI after police said she crashed her Ford Fusion into a motorcycle Wednesday night, killing a 49-year-old Addison woman.
Police announced charges against Miracle Hall on Friday, including one felony count of aggravated DUI involving a crash resulting in death, one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol concentration of at least 0.08, another misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcohol and various traffic citations.
Police said Hall was spotted pouring a bottle of liquid into Lake Michigan after plowing into the woman’s motorcycle, knocking the woman off of it and leaving her lying in the street, according to a Chicago traffic crash report.
Hall had been driving south at a high rate of speed in the 400 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive when witnesses saw her rear-end the motorcycle at about 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to the report.
After the collision, the Ford — with the motorcycle lodged underneath it — burst into flames, jumped the median and ended up facing northbound traffic in the 500 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, according to the report.
As an off-duty Chicago police officer rushed to render aid to the 49-year-old woman, a witness saw the motorist holding what appeared to be a glass bottle jump out of the car and “run to the lake and pour it into the lake” before returning to her car, according to the report.
The still-unidentified Addison motorcyclist was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 11:52 p.m. A Friday autopsy determined she died of multiple injuries from the crash and her death was ruled an accident, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The driver, who was arrested at the scene at 11:36 p.m., submitted to a breath analysis test, which determined her blood alcohol level was .10, more than .08, which is the legal limit, according to the report.
Hall has a detention hearing set for Saturday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, according to police.
The Police Major Accident Investigation Unit is probing the wreck.