Drunk driver crashes into a school in Northwest Miami-Dade, cops say

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics rescued a person trapped inside an SUV that crashed into a school building in Northwest Miami-Dade Saturday morning.

According to the department, paramedics got a call just before 6 a.m. that a vehicle was pinned into wall of the Dr. Henry Mach West Little River K-8 Center at Northwest 84th Street and 24th Avenue and that a passenger was stuck inside.

The unidentified person in the SUV was “heavily entrapped,” according to the technical rescue team and airlifted to Jackson Memorial Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition, Miami-Dade police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta said.

Zabaleta added that the driver was drunk.

This story was originally published November 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM.

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