Driver in deadly Fla. day care crash in custody

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By PATRICK PETERSON and MATT SEDENSKY

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) - The SUV driver accused of causing a car to crash into a Florida day care, killing a 4-year-old girl and injuring 14 others, most of them children, surrendered to authorities Thursday.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office tweeted that Robert Alex Corchado was in custody at the jail. Corchado's attorney, Jack Kaleita, confirmed it, but refused to comment further.

"He had nowhere to go," said Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Wanda Diaz.

The surrender came a day after police say Corchado, 28, crashed his Dodge Durango into a convertible, which in turn smashed into the KinderCare building. Authorities - and the mother of the little girl who was killed - pleaded for the suspect to give up, even as they blanketed the state searching for him.

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This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Robert Corchado. Authorities are looking for Corchado in connection with an incident Wednesday, April 9, 2014, where a car smashed into an Orlando, Fla.-area day care, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, authorities said. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)

[Warpy]

1. Probably waited until his alcohol level came down.

and/or he realized that he was going to be caught, anyway.

[840high]

2. Yes.

[Nitram]

3. Yes, but being guilty of a hit and run,

on top of being responsible for a death, will increase his sentence substantially.

[Warpy]

4. Drunks don't think like that