A crash involving a Miami police cruiser closed all but one southbound lane on Interstate 95 near the Rickenbacker Causeway exit during Tuesday’s early morning rush hour. The closures caused heavy delays in the area.
The crash occurred on southbound I-95 beyond the downtown exits near the Rickenbacker Causeway and South Dixie Highway around 6 a.m., according to the Florida Department of Transportation Traffic Cameras database.
Video taken by Total Traffic Miami shortly after 7:30 a.m. showed police cruisers blocking multiple lanes, with a long line of drivers slowly squeezing into one lane.
I-95 Still a MESS southbound after the downtown exits near Rickenbacker cswy and S. Dixie Hwy! One lane squeezes by Avoid! https://t.co/MmO7vQhVwA
Miami police said the crash involved one of the department’s marked cruisers and another vehicle. The crash was minor and there were no injuries, a Miami police spokeswoman said.
The lanes have since reopened and police are continuing to investigate the crash.
This story was originally published November 3, 2020 at 8:05 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
