A crash has closed a stretch of the MacArthur Causeway westbound early Tuesday.
Pedro Portal
pportal@miamiherald.com
Three people in a Lamborghini SUV were taken to the hospital following a crash early Tuesday morning that shut down a stretch of the MacArthur Causeway from Miami Beach to Miami.
The crash happened at Parrot Jungle Trail near the Jungle Island theme park just before Tuesday’s morning rush hour began. It closed all westbound lanes on the causeway. As of 9 a.m., one lane has reopened.
The driver of the Lamborghini SUV lost control and collided with a white Toyota sedan before hitting a metal digital traffic sign, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, which is handling the investigation. Miami Herald news partner CBS Miami said the SUV flipped.
The three people inside the Lamborghini were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, troopers said. One of them has life-threatening injuries. The Toyota driver wasn’t injured.
Drivers should expect delays and take other routes, including the Venetian Causeway and the Julia Tuttle Causeway.
This bulletin will be updated.
This story was originally published November 1, 2022 at 6:30 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