Overview
- The crash, which occurred on July 31, 2022, involved then-17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla driving into a brick wall at nearly 100 mph and killing two passengers according to investigators who found the accelerator fully depressed with no braking.
- A judge convicted Shirilla at a 2023 bench trial on multiple counts and sentenced her to concurrent 15-to-life terms with parole eligibility in 2037, and appeals have been denied leaving the convictions legally final.
- Netflix released The Crash on May 15, 2026, and the film quickly reached No. 1 on the platform while bringing the case back into national news and online discussion.
- A former cellmate has made viral claims that Shirilla behaved very differently in prison and said she was 'on shrooms' at the time of the crash, but those assertions are limited to that single source and conflict with court blood-test results that showed only THC.
- The renewed attention has sharpened public criticism of Shirilla and her parents, raised questions about how true-crime films depict defendants, and is unlikely to change the legal status of the case in the near term because the courtroom decisions remain final.