BrAC Of Goshen Woman Who Hit Buggy With Car Allegedly Was Nearly Twice The Legal Limit

The Goshen woman who hit a horse-drawn buggy Friday with her car and then fled the scene allegedly had a breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) of 0.14%, almost two times the legal limit.
Jakaila Miracle, 24, Goshen, is charged with three counts of causing serious bodily while operating a vehicle, level 5 felonies; operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a class C misdemeanor; and three counts of battery, level 6 felonies.
She was booked into the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office at 7:25 p.m. Friday on a preliminary bond of $20,000.
According to the probable cause affidavit, at approximately 7:05 p.m. Friday, Kosciusko County Dispatch received a 911 call of a vehicle that hit a horse-drawn buggy on North Ind. 19 at West CR 1050N.
One witness said the driver of the vehicle, later identified as Miracle, drove away. One person from the buggy was laying in the roadway unresponsive and other individuals, including a baby, were also in the buggy at the time of the accident and were injured. The infant was sent to a hospital in Fort Wayne via medic flight.
Dispatch told all Kosciusko County and Warsaw city units of the description of the vehicle. At approximately 7:24 p.m., dispatch received a call reporting Miracle’s vehicle was driving east in the westbound lanes of West U.S. 30 at CR 800W. A Warsaw Police Department officer located Miracle’s vehicle with heavy front-end damage and conducted a traffic stop at West U.S. 30 and CR 350W.
A KCSO deputy drove from the collision scene to the traffic stop. Upon arrival, Miracle was sitting in the WPD officer’s vehicle. The deputy noted the damage to the front end of the vehicle.
The deputy spoke with Miracle, who denied being in an accident. When asked about the damage to her vehicle, Miracle said she hit a deer three weeks prior. Miracle was slurring her words, according to court documents. When asked if she had been drinking, Miracle said she hadn’t and she had just gotten off work.
The deputy asked Miracle to participate in standardized field sobriety testing due to suspicion she had been drinking alcohol. Miracle consented. Miracle’s results were 0.14% BrAC. Law enforcement also located alcoholic beverages inside Miracle’s vehicle.
While at a local hospital for a chemical test, Miracle became verbally aggressive and began to flail around, court documents state. During the incident, Miracle splashed urine around a hospital room and onto deputies. Miracle continued to be uncooperative as she was escorted to a bathroom, hitting a deputy in the chest area.
On Saturday, a police officer did a follow-up with the individuals who were injured in the horse-drawn buggy. Melvin Miller, 43, Nappanee, the buggy’s driver, suffered minor damage to one of his legs. Mabel, 43, Nappanee, had a broken nose, eye sockets and lacerations to her legs. Karilyn Miller, 15, Nappanee, a passenger in the buggy, broke one of her legs. The infant was ultimately determined to have no injuries. Lori Miller, 41, Nappanee, was still at the intensive care unit at Memorial Hospital in South Bend for a brain bleed and is scheduled for surgery to her left arm and right leg.