Officer, police dog injured in crash that causes major backups on Florida Turnpike

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. ā€“ The northbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike were blocked in southwest Miami-Dade on Wednesday afternoon because of a crash involving a Miami-Dade K-9 officer.

Police said the crash happened shortly after 3:15 p.m. on the Turnpike near Southwest 216th Street.

According to investigators, the officer and an all-terrain crane were both going north on the Turnpike when they collided near Southwest 211th Street.

The impact caused the officerā€™s vehicle to roll over multiple times before it came to a stop on the highway.

Officer, police dog injured following crash on Florida Turnpike

The officer was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital as a trauma alert where he remains in critical but stable condition, and at last check was resting with his family.

The K-9 officerā€™s dog, whose name is Fox, was also taken away for treatment.

Fox only suffered minor injuries and is expected to be OK, authorities said.

Miami-Dade police said the officer is a K-9 narcotics detective who is a 17-year veteran of MDPD and that he was on-duty at the time of the crash.

No other injuries were reported.


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Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.

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