Woman dies in Florida Keys crash on U.S. 1, Monroe Sheriff’s Office said
.jpg "One person was killed in a crash on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys Tuesday morning, Sept. 23, 2025.")
A woman died and a man was seriously injured in a car crash on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys that closed the highway for about an hour Tuesday morning, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.
The head-on crash happened around 11 a.m. at mile marker 19 on Summerland Key in the Lower Keys, the sheriff’s office said.
Per the Florida Highway Patrol, the 44-year-old woman, who has not been named, was driving a Kia sedan southbound on the highway, and then drifted into the northbound lane.
She hit the front of a Ford pickup that was heading north in the correct lane of the highway, the FHP said.
Paramedics took the woman to a Keys hospital, where she died. A dog in her car was also killed, the FHP said. The Highway Patrol lists her hometown as Jacksonville, but her friends said she was from the Keys and had recently moved back to the island chain.
Paramedics flew the 63-year-old Sugarloaf Key man driving the Ford to a Miami-Dade County hospital in critical condition, troopers said. Troopers did not release his name.
Both drivers were were wearing seatbelts.
The FHP said in its report that “it is still undetermined if alcohol was a factor at this time.”
This story was originally published September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM.
