A fiery crash involving an overturned tractor trailer has shut down a stretch of the Palmetto Expressway early Thursday.
The crash happened in the westbound lanes of the expressway near Northwest 37th Avenue in Miami Gardens, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. It involves hazardous materials, according to the Florida Department of Transportation’s Live Camera database.
Helicopter video taken by WSVN shows firefighters working to douse the fire caused by the crash.
All westbound lanes in the area are close for the investigation, according to troopers. The closure has caused heavy delays, according to video taken by Total Traffic Miami.
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
