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Deltona Pedestrian Talking on Cell Phone Walks to Her Death

Shivon Walker, 28, of Deltona, was driving her Chrysler van westbound on Howland Boulevard on December 21, at 6.20 p.m. Traveling within the 45 mph speed limit, she crossed the green lights at the Courtland Boulevard intersection. It was dark, and even though the Chrysler’s headlights were on, Walker did not see the pedestrian crossing Howland Boulevard, and hit her. The victim, Shinnique Comer, aged 26, also of Deltona, died instantly.
When Comer crossed the road, she was talking on her cell phone, never looked up, did not see the red pedestrian light, the van, or any other vehicle in the moving traffic and kept walking to her death.
Rachel Garay was a passenger in another vehicle riding west on Howland, that had stopped at the red light at the same intersection. When the light turned green, Garay’s car moved forward, saw Comer crossing the boulevard at the opposite end of the intersection and was able to avoid the pedestrian on account of the car’s low speed. Walker’s van, traveling in the right lane, could not stop in time and struck Comer.
Garay later declared to the Volusia County Sheriff’s investigators that the driver of the car she was in had honked and flicked her lights, to no avail.
The attorneys of Johnson & Gilbert send their most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Shinnique Comer following this tragic pedestrian accident in Florida.

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