A southbound stretch of Florida’s Turnpike was closed for a fatal crash investigation.
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A woman was killed in a crash that shut down a stretch of Florida’s Turnpike in Homestead for several hours early Friday.
The single-car crash happened around 2:15 a.m. near Exit 2: Campbell Drive (Southwest 312th Street), according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Investigators say a woman in a white 2013 Buick was driving south on the turnpike when she veered to the left and struck a concrete barrier wall. The force of the impact pushed her car to the right and into a guardrail.
The woman, who wasn’t wearing her seat belt, struck the steering wheel and died from her injuries, troopers said. Her front seat passenger, a man, had minor injuries.
The crash closed all southbound lanes in the area for more than five hours.
This story was originally published October 21, 2022 at 6:57 AM.
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
