The Miami police officer, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for a head injury.
Screenshot of CBS4 video
A Miami police officer is in the hospital and a woman is facing a DUI charge after an early morning crash in Overtown.
The officer was in an unmarked vehicle when he was struck by another car just after 3 a.m. Thursday near the area of Northwest Third Avenue and 14th Street, according to the Miami Police Department.
The officer was reportedly guarding a construction site when a woman driving a white car crashed into his. Video taken by local news stations shows the smashed side of the officer’s unmarked, dark-colored car.
The officer, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital after suffering a head injury.
Miami Herald news partner CBS4 showed the other driver, a woman, taking a field sobriety test. Police then arrested her.
Police have not released her identity but say they have charged her with driving under the influence.
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
