09-05-2025
Teen allegedly ‘showing off' new car in Pembroke Pines crash that killed 2
A 17-year-old boy is facing charges as an adult in connection with a crash in Pembroke Pines earlier this year that killed two people, court records show.
Albert Oswaldo Yanez Quintana, of Sunrise, was booked into the Paul Rein Detention Facility on Thursday on seven charges.
Yanez Quintana is accused of speeding in his 2019 Dodge Charger near the area of North Dykes Road and Northwest 12th Street in Pembroke Pines just after 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14 when he crashed into a 2018 Ford Fusion at nearly twice the posted speed limit of 45 mph, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The driver of the Ford tried to make a left turn onto Northwest 12th Street when Yanez Quintana smashed into its right side at about 85 mph, the affidavit said. The force ripped the Ford in half and ejected one of the two people inside. That person, whose name is redacted in the affidavit, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other person from the Ford, whose name is also redacted, was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital and died on Feb. 22, the affidavit said. Pembroke Pines Police identified them only as 'an elderly man and an elderly woman' in a statement announcing the arrest on Thursday.
Yanez Quintana and his three passengers were taken to hospitals, the affidavit said. One passenger had a fractured shoulder while Yanez Quintana and another passenger had minor injuries. The third passenger needed extensive physical therapy for damage done to his spine.
Police received a search warrant for the event data recorder in the Dodge a few days later and found that the car was traveling at 85 mph less than one second before the crash, according to the affidavit. Five seconds before the crash, the Dodge was recorded with 'the accelerator pedal depressed at one hundred percent.'
If Yanez Quintana had been driving at the speed limit, the Ford Fusion would have had a few extra seconds to cross the intersection and avoid the crash, the affidavit said.
Yanez Quintana and three others, whose names are redacted, were summoned to give official statements in March. They all told police they met at Westfork Plaza, in the 15000 block of Pines Boulevard, before the crash, the affidavit said.
One witness told police Yanez Quintana was driving erratically when leaving the plaza, 'intent on showing off his new car and what speeds it was capable of,' the affidavit said.
Yanez Quintana swerved around slower cars on the road as he accelerated at dangerous speeds, the affidavit said, seriously injuring some of his passengers and causing the deaths of the man driving the Ford and his passenger.
He is facing two counts of vehicular homicide, one count of reckless driving causing serious bodily injury and four counts of reckless driving with damage to person or property, jail records show. He remained in the jail as of Friday afternoon.
