Exclusive | Retracing Mackenzie Shirillas Hell on Wheels drive and the tiny clue about what really happened at crash site

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The spot where “Hell on Wheels” driver Mackenzie Shirilla smashed into a building at 100 mph, killing her boyfriend and a close pal, has been repaired and manicured in the years since the headline-grabbing crash.A large oak tree now stands in the spot where Shirilla blasted through a stop sign and crashed her 2018 black Toyota Camry into a building at 5:30 a.m.on July 31, 2022, after a sleepover at another friend’s house. Stern “No Trespassing” signs, which warn lookie-lou fans of the hit Netflix doc about the case, “The Crash,” provide the only hint of what happened there. The Post retraced the doomed 6-minute, 4.2-mile route she took before plowing her car into a brick wall – including the final stretch, where she floored the gas and never let up.Cops found her fuzzy Prada slipper still on the gas pedal when they rescued her from the wreck.But the roads are far from deadly for anyone driving a sane speed — and even lovely for gloomy northeast Ohio.Shirilla, then 17, took the fateful drive with ex-boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan after spending the night at a friend’s house on Brushwood Lane in Strongsville — about 20 miles southwest of Cleveland.After leaving the quiet, dead-end road before sunrise, the trio traveled west past just a handful of modest homes before turning left onto Whitney Road. Shirilla’s sedan followed the narrow, straight, two-lane road for nearly two miles – passing tree-lined neighborhoods, a lone stop sign and a single traffic light – before reaching an intersection surrounded by fast-food joints and gas stations, where she made another left turn. The vehicle continued south on Pearl Road for roughly 1.3 miles, with stretches of dense greenery broken up only occasionally by office complexes and other commercial properties. Surveillance footage then captured the Camry “making a controlled [right-hand] turn…onto westbound Progress Drive,” a Strongsville detective ...