A seven car crash on I-95 closed lanes, sent Broward rush hour traffic into gridlock

A crash involving seven cars on Interstate 95 in Broward County sent rush hour traffic into a gridlock early Thursday in Fort Lauderdale.

The crash happened around 6:40 a.m. on the I-95 southbound lanes near Broward Boulevard (Exit 27), just north of I-595, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash shut down multiple lanes of traffic for more than two hours, causing heavy congestion in the area.

All lanes reopened by 9:04 a.m.

No injuries were reported, troopers said.

Troopers still have not said how the crash happened.

This article will be updated.

Editor’s Note: This article was updated to reflect FHP’s new crash count.

This story was originally published September 16, 2021 at 7:16 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