Video shows car crash impact catapulting Broward woman through the air before she died in 2023

Stephanie A. Magri was driving a silver Honda Accord when she crashed with a white Tesla Model 3 that then struck Sarah Castro in 2023 in Broward County, according to deputies. A video shows Castro standing behind her wheelchair when the impact catapulted her through the air and into a parked blue Ford Mustang in Lauderdale Lakes, according to deputies. Matthew Karim, a defense attorney, said Magri, 49, who didn’t have a valid driver’s license, left the scene of the crash — not realizing Castro had been injured. “She had no idea,” Karim said on Thursday.Magri, who was born in New York and lived in Broward, had four prior convictions for driving on a suspended license in 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2022, and she fled after the crash on Jan. 30, 2023, within the 3300 block of North State Road Seven, according to prosecutors. “Magri fled the scene on foot without identifying herself or rendering aid to any of the parties involved … denied any possession or involvement … stated that she was with her mother,” Chandler Greetham, a Broward Sheriff’s Office detective, wrote on April 12, 2023, according to an arrest warrant. Fire rescue personnel took Castro to the Broward Health Medical Center, where she was treated for a traumatic brain injury and a spinal fracture until she died. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Magri on July 18, 2023, at Flanagan’s Restaurant, at 2600 Davie Boulevard, in Fort Lauderdale, records show. Broward prosecutors filed the felony case against Magri on July 20, 2023, according to court records. On Aug. 8, 2023, Magri pleaded not guilty to three charges: Leaving the scene of a crash with death, a first-degree felony; failure to remain at the scene of an accident, a third-degree felony; and driving while license revoked, a third-degree felony. Broward County Circuit Judge Andrew Siegel was presiding over Magri’s trial.