A Miami police officer was airlifted to the hospital with a serious leg injury after troopers say a coupe crashed into his marked cruiser on Interstate 95 at the Golden Glades interchange.
The crash happened on the I-95 northbound lanes at the ramp to Florida’s Turnpike around 7 a.m. Friday.
It shut down all but one lane of traffic for hours.
“A gray Toyota coupe improperly changed lanes into the path of a marked City of Miami Police vehicle,” said Lt. Alejandro Camacho, spokesman for Florida Highway Patrol. “As a result, the vehicles collided.”’
Multiple TV stations recorded the damaged cruiser on the grass.
The Miami-police cruiser related crash shut down a section of Interstate 95 for hours at Golden Glades. Florida Department of Transportation Live Camera database
The officer was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with “traumatic injuries,” according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Camacho says the injuries to the officer’s leg are not life-threatening.
The coupe’s two passengers were taken to Aventura Hospital with minor injuries. The driver was not injured.
Police reopened two lanes a little more than an hour after the crash, according to Total Traffic Miami.
The roadway reopened by 10 a.m.
This story was originally published January 3, 2020 at 8:02 AM.
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
