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A serious crash involving a motorcyclist and two SUVs shut down a section of the MacArthur Causeway for hours early Monday morning, according to Miami Beach police.
Police say one of the SUVs struck both the motorcycle and the other SUV around 1:50 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the causeway just past Palm Island.
The causeway’s westbound lanes from Alton Road reopened at 10 a.m. Monday, according to police.
The motorcyclist was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and is in critical condition, according to police.
The driver of the SUV who struck the motorcycle and the other SUV was also taken to the hospital, but the condition is unknown.
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All traffic exiting Palm and Star islands was diverted eastbound.
Drivers who were trying to leave Miami Beach were asked to take alternate routes such as the Julia Tuttle Causeway to the north.
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
