Moments from the tragedy, this never-before-seen video shows the golf cart carrying newlyweds Aric and Samantha Hutchinson in the final leg of a night now infamous for the devastating accident that claimed his life minutes later.
Surveillance footage of the road where the accident occurred, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, shows the golf cart carrying the bride and groom and two other relatives.
They pass a house on Folly Island’s East Ashley Avenue as they return from the wedding of Hutchinson, 36, and Samantha, at approximately 10:11 p.m. on April 28.
Just hours earlier, the newlyweds had posed for photos with family and friends three miles away on the idyllic South Carolina sands, then danced and laughed at the reception at the Folly County Park pavilion.
Samantha told her friends that she wished the day would “never end.”
DailyMail.com has obtained surveillance footage showing the golf cart carrying newlyweds Aric and Samantha Hutchinson as they left their wedding reception.
Surveillance footage of the road where the accident occurred, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, shows the golf cart carrying the bride and groom and two other family members slowly passing by.
Two minutes after the camera catches sight of the golden car, a car driven by Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, speeds up.
A motorcade of police cars and ambulances, their lights on, follows minutes after Komoroski’s Toyota Camry speeds by.
Seen today in grainy black and white, the golf cart, dragging “just married” wedding decorations behind it, takes 23 seconds to traverse the frame.
Two minutes later, a car driven by 25-year-old Jamie Lee Komoroski speeds past that same chamber.
Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, is pictured in a mugshot after the fatal crash last month where he killed a bride on her wedding night.
Traveling at approximately four times the pace of the cart, it is out of sight in 6 seconds, on its terrifying collision course, and only seven hundred yards from where it crashed into the golf cart.
Drunk at the wheel, Komoroski covered the distance in seconds. With more than three times the legal alcohol limit in his system, police said, he was driving at speeds of up to 65 mph in the 25-mph zone.
Aric’s brother-in-law, Benjamin Garrett, was driving the golf cart with his young son, Brogan, sitting next to him in the passenger seat. Aric and his girlfriend rode behind.
The whole horrible thing ended within five minutes of the golf cart first appearing in this video.
A terrifying cavalcade of police cars and ambulances, with their flashing lights, follows minutes after Komoroski’s Toyota Camry speeds by.
Samantha, 28, died at the scene while her husband and the other two suffered serious injuries.
Hutchinson was released from the hospital after ten days suffering a brain hemorrhage and undergoing multiple reconstructive surgeries to repair fractured bones in his legs and face and broken vertebrae.
From his wheelchair, Hutchinson spoke at a beachside memorial for his late wife last week, saying: She would have loved it. This is Sam, she’s a beach girl, through and through.
‘We walk here almost every morning, and this is your farewell for sure. I’m sure he’s up there smiling.
She has filed a civil lawsuit against Komoroski and the bars that served her.
The accident occurred on Folly Island’s East Ashley Avenue as the couple were returning from their wedding reception at approximately 10:11 pm on April 28.
The couple’s wrecked golf cart is shown after the accident. The car rolled several times and was thrown 100 yards by Komoroski’s Toyota Camry.
Hutchinson was left in a wheelchair after suffering two broken legs, multiple facial fractures and a concussion. He is seen here at a beachside memorial for his late girlfriend.
Komoroski has been charged with three counts of felony DUI involving death or serious bodily injury. She is currently being held without bond at the Sheriff Al Canon Detention Center in North Charleston.
Her attorneys filed a motion last week saying she poses no flight risk or danger to the community, having advocated for her release on bail.
“Jamie Lee Komoroski’s personal characteristics, along with his strong family support and ties to the community, strongly advise in favor of his release,” the motion reads.
He also indicated how he has struggled for years with alcohol dependency, depression and anxiety.
“Jamie, with the support of her family, is committed and prepared to participate in intense inpatient mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation immediately upon her release,” the motion read.
Earlier this week, video was released showing Komoroski crying that his “life was over” during a phone call from a county jail.
Komoroski had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit for driving when he crashed a Toyota Camry into newlyweds Samantha, 34, and Aric Hutchinson, 36.
Earlier this week, video was released showing Komoroski crying that his “life was over” during a phone call from a county jail.
Two days after the accident during a call with her parents she cried: ‘Oh Lord. I just can’t believe this happened to me. … Because I? …I’m going to be here for years and years and years and years.’
“I can’t believe this is my life… my whole life is going to end,” she added.
Her father tried to comfort her but also told her firmly that it was time to ‘suck it up’ and ‘get tough’.
‘I can’t,’ she replied. I want it to end.
Komoroski’s father also told him that he was going to have to get used to life in prison, that he could come out a better person, but that “he would have to buy time.”
In a bizarre twist, news broke last week that Traci was also involved in a fatal car accident.
In 2013, Komoroski’s 62-year-old mother killed Forest Fire Service Director Jeffery Scheuerer when she couldn’t see him because of heavy smoke while fighting a fire in Clinton Township, New Jersey.
It was ruled a ‘tragic accident’ as a sudden change in wind obscured his fire truck which was partially blocking a lane of traffic and its flashing lights. No charges were filed.
Komoroski’s new bail motion will be heard at his next court appearance, on June 16.
