A 43-year-old man was airlifted to the hospital after police said he was hit by a car at a Miami Gardens intersection — before it crashed into a building.
The crash happened at the intersection of Northwest 211th St. and 37th Ave. early Tuesday morning.
A witness told police the driver was heading north when he suddenly veered into another lane, striking the man who was on the sidewalk.
The car then crashed into the building, which was unoccupied at the time, according to Miami Gardens police.
The pedestrian was airlifted to the hospital with multiple injuries, including a broken right leg, a police spokesman said. The driver and his passenger suffered minor injuries.
Police declined to release the identity of the victim or the driver.
The driver was cited for the traffic accident.
Note: Officials said earlier that the force of the crash ejected two people from the car. During the investigation, officials later learned that was not the case.
This story was originally published November 5, 2019 at 7:16 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
