2 dead in fiery wrong-way crash, police say. A pregnant mom and 6 kids also injured

Two people were killed and seven others were injured, including a pregnant mom, in a fiery wrong-way crash early Friday in central Miami-Dade County, police said.

Miami-Dade police say a car being driven in the wrong direction crashed into an SUV in the area of Northwest 79th Street and 10th Avenue around midnight.

The car, reportedly an Infiniti, burst into flames. Two people inside died, police said.

A pregnant mother and six children were in the SUV, police said. They were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center in stable condition.

No other information was immediately available.

This article will be updated.

This story was originally published June 4, 2021 at 7:39 AM.

Michelle Marchante

Miami Herald

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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