A fatal crash has shut down a section of Quail Roost Drive in South Miami-Dade during Monday’s morning rush hour.
A fatal crash has shut down a section of Quail Roost Drive in South Miami-Dade during Monday morning rush hour.
The crash has closed the intersection of Southwest 117th Avenue and Quail Roost Drive in all directions, according to Miami-Dade police. The area is near Miami Southridge Senior High School.
#TRAFFIC ALERT: Due to a traffic fatality, the intersection of SW 117 Avenue and Quail Roost Drive is closed in all directions. Please seek alternate routes. pic.twitter.com/gTZvcP17uD
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
