On November 15, 2006 at approximately 6:20 p.m., Danica Radtke and her boyfriend were driving in a 1998 Silver Nissan Sentra when they were involved a car accident that flipped the car over.
As Danica crawled out of the car, an early model, white or gray, box-style Lincoln Continental came by on the freeway and hit and killed her. The driver of the Lincoln fled the scene. The crash happened on the westbound express lanes of the I-96 Fwy. near the Grand River/Schaefer exit in Detroit.