BMW driver in deadly July 4 Dania Beach crash facing vehicular-homicide charges
A Broward County judge on Tuesday ordered the driver in a Fourth of July crash that killed two people and injured six others held without bond until his trial on charges of vehicular homicide and driving under the influence.
Vladimir Mushenko, 38, of Hollywood, was booked into jail the night of the Dania Beach crash on a total of 22 counts that also include reckless driving.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said Mushenko was speeding eastbound on East Dania Beach Boulevard in his 2020 BMW M8 around 5:50 p.m. Saturday when he hit a curb, overcorrected and hopped the median into the westbound lanes.
His car crashed head-on into a 2021 Mercedes-Benz GLS driven by a woman who had four passengers.
One of Mushenko’s passengers, Oleksii Maksymov, was dead when deputies and paramedics arrived, according to the sheriff’s office. Paramedics took Mushenko and the two other passengers to Broward Health Medical Center, where Said Akhmedov died, according to the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office did not release the ages of Maksymov and Akhmedov, citing privacy laws.
The condition of the other passenger was not immediately available.
Blood taken from Mushenko at the hospital showed his blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit for driving, according to his arrest report. He was locked up in BSO’s main jail in Fort Lauderdale after he was discharged from the hospital.
Paramedics also took the driver of the Mercedes and her passengers to the hospital. The sheriff’s office describes their injuries as “non-life-threatening.” On the night of the crash, the sheriff’s office said two patients were minors.
