There are ongoing court cases which seek to make this kind of thing illegal, based on the shift in burden (driver has to prove they weren't the one, normally a police officer is right there to verify a person)

That being said, if she broke the law, she broke the law. If we decide that we should get exception to the rules of law we don't like (like trump), then what will become of our society? Pedestrian and traffic fatalities in America are atrocious