A woman was ejected from her SUV after crashing with a school bus in Hialeah, according to fire-rescue.
The crash reportedly happened with the private school bus in the 4200 block of East Fifth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon.
An aerial view of the crash recorded by Miami Herald news partner CBS4 shows a yellow school bus on the sidewalk with heavy front-end damage, the woman’s SUV in the middle of the road. A crowd of parents and students can be seen near the bus.
The 49-year-old woman was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center in serious condition, said a spokesman for Hialeah fire-rescue.
A student on the bus was treated at the crash scene for minor injuries.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools said it was not one of their contracted buses.
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
