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Officer and driver injured in a crash in front of a Miami-Dade high school

A crash involving a Miami-Dade police officer is being investigated in front of Miami Southridge High School early Monday.
A crash involving a Miami-Dade police officer is being investigated in front of Miami Southridge High School early Monday. Fernando Salazar Miami Herald file

A driver and a Miami-Dade police officer in a marked cruiser collided in front of Miami Southridge Senior High School early Monday.

They were taken to the hospital for evaluation, Miami-Dade police said.

According to investigators, the officer was traveling north on Southwest 114th Avenue. A driver in a Subaru made a left turn to the school and into the path of the officer, police said.

Helicopter TV news video shows the police car, with front-end damage, against a pole near the sign in front of the high school at 19355 SW 114th Ave. A white car with front-end damage can be seen on the nearby road.

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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
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