A Florida woman accused of plowing an SUV into a parked car appeared to downplay the collision before making a personal plea to the officers investigating her, newly released video shows."I thought we were all friends," 24-year-old Elizabeth Boucher told Daytona Beach police during the Aug.30 encounter.Surveillance video released by police shows an SUV smashing into a parked Honda with enough force to shove it across a front lawn and out of the camera’s view.But when an officer asked Boucher what happened, she offered a far less dramatic account caught on police bodycam video.BODYCAM SHOWS NANTUCKET OFFICIAL SLURRING, SWAYING DURING DUI STOP AFTER CRASHING INTO SIGN: POLICEBooking photo of 24-year-old Elizabeth Boucher following her arrest in Daytona Beach, Fla.
(Daytona Beach Police Department)"I guess I hit the front light of those cars, but I don’t know what really happened," Boucher said."You didn’t just hit the front of the car," the officer fired back."You just took the car completely off."Body camera video shows the officer then asking Boucher for her driver’s license.
She instead hands him a passport.BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS CANADIAN WOMAN ALLEGEDLY GIVING FALSE NAME BEFORE DEPUTIES DISCOVERED 12 FAKE IDSBodycam video shows Elizabeth Boucher, 24, speaking with a Daytona Beach police officer beside a damaged vehicle.(Daytona Beach Police Department)"That’s a passport," he tells her before again asking for her license.As the roadside investigation unfolded, Boucher pleaded with officers not to lock her up."It’s just a vape.
I know.It didn’t even work," she said.
"Please don’t take me to jail over this."An officer later told Boucher that the case had been shifted from a civil crash investigation to a criminal DUI investigation, and read her Miranda rights.Asked whether she would perform field sobriety exercises, Boucher refused, according to the video.She also declined a breath test after an officer formally requested one.REPEAT DRUNKEN-DRIVING ...