The Hit-and-Run Driver (Michael Kraft Trial)
Court Junkie
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4.8 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After a tragic hit-and-run accident took the lives of two people, the driver went on trial.
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| 0:00.0 | 39-year-old Jenica Campbell had her whole day planned out. |
| 0:05.3 | It was March 29, 2021. |
| 0:09.1 | First, she cooked eggs and bacon for her four daughters. |
| 0:13.3 | The girls, ages 17, 14, 12, and 10, were going back to school after spring break had just ended. |
| 0:21.9 | After breakfast, Jenica went to donate Plasma. |
| 0:26.1 | Next on her itinerary, she needed to finish shopping for her daughter's Easter baskets for the upcoming holiday. |
| 0:32.6 | And then a trip to Walmart to pick something up. |
| 0:36.1 | That's why Jenica was driving on State Road 46 when she |
| 0:40.2 | noticed something horrific, a man lying on the ground. The man was 73-year-old Vincent Russo. |
| 0:49.5 | He had been riding his motorcycle when a car hit him and then drove away. |
| 0:55.1 | Jenica pulled over to help. |
| 0:57.2 | Others gathered around too. |
| 0:59.5 | Firefighters and police were beginning to arrive. |
| 1:03.4 | What happened next? |
| 1:05.2 | No one could predict. |
| 1:08.0 | A witness described what happened as the hit-and-run driver returned to the crash site, the car barreling right towards them. |
| 1:16.2 | The same car came from this heading westbound 46 at a very high rate of speed, jumped the curb and plowed into a lady that was trying to administer aid to the |
| 1:34.2 | motorcyclist. |
| 1:35.5 | As people scrambled to get out of the way, the driver drove into Jenica Campbell, |
| 1:41.6 | sending her flying into the air. |
| 1:47.6 | She died at the scene, even as a firefighter paramedic performed CPR to try and revive her. Years later, nobody debated the facts of that day |
| 1:56.0 | in a Seminole County Florida courtroom as the families of Vincent Russo and Jenica Campbell sought justice. |
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