A box truck driver lost control and rolled over while trying to turn on the curve of a Sawgrass Expressway exit ramp in Broward County early Wednesday, troopers said.
The truck’s driver was rescued from the cab and taken to Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach with serious but non-life threatening injuries, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The rollover happened on the Sawgrass southbound exit ramp to State Road 7, according to FHP. The southbound entrance and exit ramp (Exit 18 area) were blocked for at least an hour during the early morning rush hour.
This story was originally published April 14, 2021 at 7:46 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