A man has died after being struck by a dump truck near Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
The man was crossing the road along Northwest Ninth Avenue between 14th and 15th streets just after 7. a.m. Friday when he was struck by a truck traveling north, according to Miami police.
Fire-rescue crews arrived to find the man pinned under the truck, according to a police spokeswoman.
The man, in his 60s, was then taken in critical condition to Jackson Memorial Ryder Trauma, where he later died, she said.
The driver of the truck, which is owned by a private company, remained on the scene.
The man’s identity will not be released until his family is notified.
Northwest 10th Avenue between 11 and 15th streets reopened to traffic shortly before 11:30 a.m.
Note: An earlier version of this story said the pedestrian was struck by a garbage truck. Police have updated the description of the vehicle. It was a dump truck, they said.
This story was originally published September 20, 2019 at 8:33 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
