At least one person died Wednesday morning in a crash in western Hollywood.
The crash happened in the area of Sheridan Street and Northwest 76th Avenue, according to Pembroke Pines police. The police department says it is assisting Hollywood police with the traffic crash investigation. The area is at the Hollywood-Pembroke Pines border.
It is still unclear if the person who died was a pedestrian or was inside a vehicle at the time of the crash.
Police are diverting westbound traffic in the area and are asking drivers to seek alternate routes to avoid possible rush hour delays.
No other information was immediately available
ATTENTION DRIVERS: Westbound traffic is being diverted in the area of Sheridan Street & NW 76th Avenue due to an on-going traffic crash investigation by @HollywoodFLPD. PPPD is on scene assisting. Please seek an alternate route to avoid delays.
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
