A crash involving a police car has closed lanes on the Palmetto Expressway

A crash involving several cars, including a Miami-Dade police cruiser, has shut down lanes and is causing heavy delays on the Palmetto Expressway during Friday’s morning rush hour.

The crash on State Road 826 has closed three southbound lanes at Northwest 25th Street. The express lanes are also shut down, causing delays all the way to the Big Curve, according to local TV news reports.

Miami-Dade police say one of their officers was on their way to work when she was rear-ended, which caused a chain reaction of crashes.

Police said no one was hurt.

Drivers should leave their homes earlier to make up for possible delays or seek an alternate route.

This bulletin will be updated.

This story was originally published October 22, 2021 at 7:57 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