A man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries Monday after an 18-wheeler crash at a major Miami-Dade intersection.
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A man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries Monday after a crash with an 18-wheeler at a major Miami-Dade intersection.
While at Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center, doctors found a gunshot wound to his upper torso, Miami-Dade police said. Detectives said they don’t know yet how or where the man was shot before the crash.
What police do know is that the two-car crash happened at the intersection of Northwest 119th Street and 27th Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. TV news video showed a car underneath the truck.
The car’s driver was taken to Jackson in critical condition, police said. The truck driver is OK
The intersection was shut down for several hours but is now reopen and the truck has been towed away.
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
