Probably doing about 40 miles an hour. And it crushes the toll taker's booth. Inside that booth is a Tammy Jo Baker born in 1963, a couple weeks shy of her 63rd birthday. After the vehicle strikes her continues into the ocean. Some witnesses say that the vehicle then tries to travel southbound to get away before it gets stuck in the sand. They remove the driver from the vehicle. So, obviously Tammy was pronounced dead at the scene. Uh, wait for the medical examiner to arrive. The suspect in this case uh, she's being tested for impairment. Uh, we're going to do a blood draw and a breathalyzer on her. And see what charges stem from that. >> Do you believe she is intoxicated from what they've seen so far? >> I can just tell you being up at the truck, there's a heavy odor. For me, heavy odor of alcohol you would smell from the passenger side vehicle. We'll see how that works out. >> The injuries on the toll worker's body >> Uh, I mean I think she was probably close to being killed on impact. That booth isn't made of anything. If you look at it and you hit that thing at 40 miles an hour there's really nowhere to go. And it flipped the booth around. The force of that. That's not the way the booth was originally. She was originally when we hit head-on. That's where the booth was originally set up. The the impact had spun the booth around. And we had obviously your under headquarters here. Lifeguards were here in a matter seconds to perform CPR and everything they could do and there was just nothing that could be done. The injuries were that severe. They were that massive. >> What were the conditions on on the beach at the time? There were other people that were in the area. >> other people who were in the area, you know, and if you really want to I to say this, you know, it's how only one person got killed. You know, once he turns and goes southbound on that beach, once he turns and goes southbound on that beach or northbound on that beach, you have all those other beach goers out there. And I think that's one of the fears is if somebody gets up here drunk or intentional and decides to run somebody down, there's not a hell of a whole lot can get done on that Dunlawton Bridge. And then here's just an example of there's this is just I don't know how to even put this into words. It's so senseless. There's somebody doing their job. Tammy Jo was a long-time county employee. She recently switched over when the toll takers went over to a private company. She went over with them. I mean, who would think when you're standing up here that my life is going to end getting hit by a drunk driver on the beach of Ponce Inlet? But again, I don't know if it's the world we live in, you know. And if this was a Saturday afternoon, this was just this past weekend, how many other people could have been killed or injured in these things? The The suspect's >> [snorts] >> name I'm John Dalton. I'm not as good as I used to be. with these things. The suspect in this case is a Deanna Harrell, H A R R E L L. She's from Ormond Beach. She was born in 1990. >> Is that the only suspect in the one who was killed? >> That's the one in there behind us underneath the lifeguard tower. >> Did you say she came over the Dunlawton Bridge? >> From what we're getting is she comes over the Dunlawton Bridge, crossed A1A. Now again, everything I'm telling you is preliminary. We got to check traffic and we haven't pulled the traffic cameras yet. And then slams into to the booth, continues into the ocean, and then turns to try to go southbound. She gets stuck as she's going southbound and and a bunch of people run out and get her out of the car. That's what we're being told. >> This is maybe not something that, you know, not having beach driving is something that we wanted, but that's always a conversation that comes up again and again when things like this happen. So, what's your message to >> I I don't know how you you blame beach I don't know anything about beach driving. All I can tell you is you got somebody at 40 miles an hour coming across that intersection and slams into the booth. It could have slammed into somebody crossing the street here. It could have slammed into the rear of another car. It could have slammed into a bicyclist. It could have slammed into anything. Clearly, the person was driving way too fast. And what was the reason for that? We're going to find out. >> It seems like that the truck is quite a ways difference between here and there. And I look, it didn't seem like she tried to stop at all. >> From what we're preliminarily gathering, she tried to drive away. She tried to drive south and got stuck. Cuz the tide was higher than it is right now. That's according to the people who pulled her out in the truck. >> Is she a local? >> Yes. She's from Ormond Beach. >> And Sheriff, did she have any criminal history at all? >> I don't know that yet. >> Sheriff, do you feel like when she was in the car, it was a violent physical altercation or was it just a civilian party involved? >> Did Did Did you go talk to her granddaughter? I mean, you know, the woman is the matriarch of the family. I mean, that's the That's the person they go to Tommy Joe's house for the holidays. It's the people they go to for advice. And And And And something is innocuous as coming here to take polls, and you're dead. For what? Really, for what? I You know, it's just senseless and it's just It's just disturbing. It's really disturbing and senseless to think of that. But she came to work like she's done for how many years? How many decades, I think. And this is how you end your life. >> How fast do you think the car was going? >> We're estimating preliminarily estimating at least 40 mph at the time of impact. Again, this is all preliminary. These guys have to do crash damage. You have all the other stuff that you mean, there's traffic cameras right there that we have not downloaded yet. So. >> One last thing, your response to people kind of stepping in when they knew that this was going on to try to help people. >> I I think that's one of the great things about living in this community. You know, people jump right into action when they see something. They're They're They're going to call 911 and do what they need to do. And I think you see it over and over and over again. I can't speak for any other community but this one. You know, the fact that they were able to get to her as quickly and as agile as quickly as they can. Again, her injuries were so massive that if there was any chance that CPR anything could have saved her life, any kind of first aid, it would it was being done. And the fact that they made sure she couldn't get away. You know, mother nature helped in the fact that the truck sank. But you know, again, hypothetically, devil's advocate, suppose it is low tide and she gets on that beach. Where's the next place to get off at? It's way down there if you can even get off. And how about all the other people that would be in life's They would likely be in danger because of that. That's everything else? >> Thank you.