A crash closed all eastbound lanes on the Julia Tuttle Causeway early Friday.
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UPDATE 8:42 a.m.: All eastbound lanes on the Julia Tuttle Causeway have reopened. There’s a lot of backed up traffic, so drivers should expect delays.
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A crash on Friday morning has closed a stretch of the Julia Tuttle Causeway, and is causing heavy delays for drivers going from Miami to Miami Beach.
All eastbound lanes on the causeway are closed, with delays stretching all the way to Interstate 95. Helicopter video taken by TV news showed a car on top of another car.
Drivers should avoid the area and seek alternate routes, like the MacArthur, Venetian, and 79th Street causeways, to get to Miami Beach.
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
