Crime

Driver dies feet from gas pumps at Aventura Police Department, detective says

A driver died Tuesday, June 9, 2026, a few feet from the fuel pumps at the Aventura Police Department, Detective Carlos Rivas said.
A driver died Tuesday, June 9, 2026, a few feet from the fuel pumps at the Aventura Police Department, Detective Carlos Rivas said. Getty Images/iStockphoto

A driver died early Tuesday a few feet from the fuel pumps at the Aventura Police Department, Detective Carlos Rivas said.

Aventura police officers responded around 4:30 a.m. to a single-vehicle incident on the 3000 block of the William Lehman Causeway, Rivas said.

The vehicle was headed east on the causeway “when, for reasons still under investigation,” it left the road and came to a stop near the gas pumps, he said.

A man, who was driving the car and was not identified by police, died at the scene.

Traffic-homicide investigators are looking into the circumstances surrounding the crash, Rivas said. No additional information was immediately available.

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