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Taylor Michael EDWARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District2018-10-12No. Case No. 5D17-1320
254 So. 3d 1195

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PER CURIAM.

We reverse Taylor Edwards conviction for leaving the scene of a crash involving personal injury because the States evidence was insufficient to establish that a crash caused the injury alleged in the information. See Gaulden v. State , 195 So.3d 1123, 1128 (Fla. 2016) (holding that section 316.027s operative phrase any vehicle involved in a crash means that vehicle must collide with another vehicle, person, or object); see also Daugherty v. State , 207 So.3d 980, 981 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016) (holding that crash that occurred when the victim, who was trying to climb in window of car, fell and collided with pavement, did not constitute crash under leaving scene of crash involving death statute). We affirm, without discussion, Edwards other conviction.

AFFIRMED, in part; REVERSED, in part; and REMANDED.

EVANDER and EISNAUGLE, JJ., and ROGERS, S.G., Associate Judge, concur.

In his motion for judgment of acquittal at trial, Edwards failed to apprise the trial court as to why the States evidence was insufficient, as a matter of law, to support a conviction. Accordingly, our reversal is based on application of the fundamental error doctrine. See F.B. v. State , 852 So.2d 226, 230 (Fla. 2003) ([A]n argument that the evidence is totally insufficient as a matter of law to establish the commission of a crime need not be preserved. Such complete failure of the evidence meets the requirements of fundamental error ....).