Two people, including a state trooper, were hospitalized after a crash on I-95 in Fort Lauderdale.
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Two people, including a state trooper, are in the hospital following a crash Thursday morning that shut down lanes and sent traffic into gridlock on Interstate 95 in Fort Lauderdale.
A Florida Highway Patrol cruiser and a white Tesla SUV collided in the northbound lanes of I-95 in the area of Exit 25 to State Road 84 around 5 a.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Helicopter TV video shows a damaged Florida Highway Patrol cruiser and gridlocked traffic in the area, with traffic squeezed into one lane. Both drivers, who were wearing their seat belts, were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries, troopers said.
Additional information was not immediately available.
Drivers should avoid the area and use other routes.
This bulletin will be updated.
Florida Highway Patrol is working a patrol vehicle crash on the northbound lanes of I-95 and SR84. Three northbound lanes of I-95 will remain closed during this investigation. The outside lane will remain open for traffic. There is a lot of traffic in the area. Avoid if possible. pic.twitter.com/N3YQCzH1JS
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
