Scooter driver airlifted after Key West crash

A Key West man was airlifted to a Miami hospital after police said a vehicle crashed into the scooter he was driving.

Jorge Luis Guanche Rodriguez, 45, was at Duck Avenue and South Roosevelt Boulevard at about 6:27 p.m. Tuesday when a vehicle “violated the scooter’s right-of-way,” said police spokeswoman Alyson Crean.

Guanche was in critical condition when airlifted, Crean said.

Crean identified the driver as Tracey Renae Barrera, 42.

The crash investigation snarled traffic around Key West’s busiest intersection known as the Triangle, which is the entrance to the island and where South Roosevelt Boulevard splits off from North Roosevelt Boulevard. South Roosevelt at Duck Avenue was closed for several hours.

Details of the crash weren’t available Wednesday afternoon, police said.

“The investigation is still open so the report isn’t in yet,” Crean said.

An earlier version of this story had an incomplete name for Jorge Luis Guanche Rodriguez because police gave an incorrect name.

This story was originally published July 24, 2019 at 5:45 PM.

Gwen Filosa

Miami Herald

Gwen Filosa covers Key West and the Lower Florida Keys for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald and lives in Key West. She was part of the staff at the New Orleans Times-Picayune that in 2005 won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She graduated from Indiana University.