Man in critical condition after motor scooter, semi-truck crash in Miami, police say

A motor scooter driver was seriously injured in a crash involving a semi-truck at a major Miami intersection early Wednesday, police and fire rescue said.

The four-way intersection at Southwest 12 Avenue and Coral Way was closed in all directions for the investigation.

When officers and fire rescue arrived, they found the scooter’s driver unconscious. He was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition, police said. His injuries were described as serious.

Based on the preliminary investigation, it appears the man riding the scooter ran the red light and collided with the truck, police said.

This story was originally published November 24, 2021 at 8:11 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