Miami Gardens man driving 100 mph faces vehicular homicide charge six years later
A Miami Gardens man was arrested Tuesday nearly six years after he crashed while driving 100 mph, killing one and seriously injuring another, according to police.
Darryl Okeefe Efford, 41, surrendered on a vehicular homicide warrant in connection with the July 7, 2020, crash, Broward County court records show.
Around 9:30 p.m. , Efford was driving his 2019 white Subaru west onto West Sunrise Boulevard and North State Road 7 in Plantation when he crashed the car’s passenger side into a 2013 black Mercedes, which was making a left turn, an arrest affidavit said.
The Subaru’s airbag control module showed Efford was driving 85.7 mph five seconds prior to the crash, and the car accelerated to 100 mph 1 e second before impact, the affidavit said.
A traffic reconstruction report performed by an outside consulting agency revealed Efford’s “actions displayed willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others” due to excessive speed on a road with a 45 mph limit, the affidavit said. The agency found that a non-impared, non-distracted driver would have made the same left turn that the victim did.
The person who was killed and the person who was injured were not identified in the affidavit, signed on Dec. 23, 2025, by the Plantation Police Department. The department recommended Efford’s arrest.
Efford was taken into custody Tuesday and bonded out, according to Broward jail records. He pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. His attorney, Larry Handfield, did not respond to a request for comment.
