A man who was pulled out of a canal by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue divers early Tuesday morning has died, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The driver was getting on Florida’s Turnpike northbound ramp on Northwest 74th street in Doral when he suddenly lost control of his car and plunged into the canal, said FHP spokesman Lt. Alejandro Camacho.
He was taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center as a trauma alert and was later pronounced dead.
The call came in right before 6 a.m., according to a fire-rescue spokesman.
Video taken by local news stations earlier in the day showed the on-ramp closed to traffic and officials at the scene.
The man was identified as Yader Boanerges Carcamo, 44. He lived in Hialeah.
This story was originally published July 30, 2019 at 9:20 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
