A jacknifed tractor trailer crash has shut down a section of Interstate 95 in Broward County — and it’s causing heavy delays during morning rush hour.
Update: Several lanes reopened at 9 a.m. Friday. Drivers should still expect miles of delays.
The crash happened around 6 a.m. Friday on the northbound lanes by Exit 42A Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach, according to the Florida Department of Transportation’s Live Camera database.
Pictures show the tractor trailer resting against the median.
Florida Department of Transportation Live Camera database
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, said a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman.
The driver is not injured.
Traffic is being diverted to the boulevard and drivers are asked to seek alternate routes.
Troopers are working to determine the cause of the crash.
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
