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Woman Pleads No Contest to Vehicular Homicide

Woman Pleads No Contest to Vehicular Homicide
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Woman pleads no contest to vehicular homicide, after a car crash back in 2014 that lead to the death of a child.

According to Leon county court reports, Nekeisha banks was traveling from Pensacola to Tampa, when Florida highway patrol troopers tried to pull her over for speeding.

Trooper say she then sped off and reached 102 miles per hour, before going airborne and flipping her car.

They say the impact threw one of the children traveling with her from the vehicle.

It was reported that the child later died.

Banks plead no contest in court on Wednesday.