One person was killed in an overnight crash near Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise.
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One person was killed in an overnight crash near Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise.
The crash happened shortly after 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the intersection of Northwest 136th Avenue and West Sunrise Boulevard, a few minutes from the mall, according to Sunrise police.
A driver in a Nissan was waiting at the red light on Northwest 136th Avenue when the car was rear-ended by a driver in a Lexus, that was going “at a high rate of speed,” police said.
The force of the crash killed the Nissan driver. The Lexus driver and a passenger were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, according to police.
The victim’s identity will not be released until family is notified.
No other information was immediately available.
This article will be updated.
This story was originally published November 19, 2021 at 8:08 AM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
