A 40-year-old Lauderhill man allegedly crashed his sedan into a pole while driving drunk with his daughter in the back seat, then ran off and left the injured girl trapped inside the wreckage, according to police. Shane Allen was found running away near Northwest 33rd Avenue after the crash at Northwest 31st Avenue and 16th Street, and he now faces seven charges across two pending criminal cases.
According to WPLG Local 10, Lauderhill police responded to the crash on August 3 and found Allen's daughter injured in the back seat of a black 2015 Infiniti sedan. Per the police report cited by Local 10 reporter Andrea Torres, Allen emitted an odor of an alcoholic beverage while speaking, had glassy eyes, and was stumbling while walking and struggling to maintain his balance when officers located him.
Lauderhill Fire Rescue transported the girl to Broward Health Medical Center, a hospital in Fort Lauderdale verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center equipped for 24/7 pediatric and adult emergency care. Her current condition has not been made public, and it remains an open question exactly how severe her injuries were.
A Stack of Charges Tied to One Night
Allen faces DUI with an unlawful blood alcohol level of .15 or higher while accompanied by a minor, child neglect without great bodily harm, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, a license violation, and refusal to submit to DUI testing. The station's report notes he remained held at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, according to inmate records.
Florida law treats several of these charges as unusually serious. Under Florida Statute § 316.193(4), driving under the influence with a minor passenger and a blood-alcohol level of .15 or higher — nearly twice the state's .08 legal limit — can push fines to between $1,000 and $2,000 for a first offense, along with up to nine months in jail and a mandatory six-month ignition interlock requirement, according to Online Sunshine.
The child neglect count is even steeper. Florida Statute § 827.03(2)(d) classifies child neglect without great bodily harm as a third-degree felony, carrying up to five years in state prison, five years of probation, and a $5,000 fine, per Online Sunshine's statutory text. Leaving the scene of a crash with only property damage is comparatively lighter under Florida Statute § 316.061, a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine, but it still requires drivers involved in any collision to remain and exchange information.
New Refusal Law Adds to the Case
Allen's refusal to submit to testing also lands differently than it would have less than a year ago. Effective October 1, 2025, Florida expanded Statute § 316.1939 under what's known as “Trenton's Law,” making a first-time refusal to submit to a chemical breath, urine, or blood test after a DUI arrest a second-degree criminal misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail, according to the Florida Law Enforcement Liaison Program. Before that change took effect, a first refusal typically triggered only an administrative license suspension rather than a criminal charge.
Court records reviewed by the outlet show Allen also has a pending case involving battery and possession of a controlled substance, separate from the crash charges. How that earlier case might affect his bond or sentencing in the new matter remains unclear.
Broward's Roads Remain Among Florida's Most Dangerous
The crash adds to a grim tally for Broward County, which recorded 36,871 total traffic crashes in 2025 — an average of more than 101 collisions every day — according to preliminary state data compiled by FindTheLawyers. That figure marked a slight decline from 38,338 crashes in 2024. Separately, an analysis by the Schiller Kessler Group found Broward registered the third-highest crash rate per capita among Florida's 67 counties in 2024, trailing only Duval and Miami-Dade with 1,936 crashes per 100,000 residents.
Statewide, hit-and-run crashes remain a persistent problem. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles recorded 104,273 hit-and-run crashes in 2023 alone, resulting in 271 deaths and 871 serious injuries, though the vast majority of those incidents involved only property damage.
The Lauderhill Police Department, which responded to the crash and apprehended Allen, runs a dedicated Traffic Unit out of its headquarters at 6279 W. Oakland Park Blvd. that handles hit-and-run investigations and DUI enforcement, according to the City of Lauderhill. It is one of several Broward agencies that have dealt with similar cases this year — Hoodline previously reported on a driver who fled after a DUI flip crash elsewhere in the county in April.
