DAVIE, Fla. – A child died and two were injured, including the child’s mother in a car crash that prompted the Florida Highway Patrol to close Interstate 75 northbound on Thursday afternoon in Broward County.
After a black 2016 GMC sports utility vehicle and a white 2015 Ford pickup truck crashed near Griffin Road in Davie, there was an urgency to help the 2-year-old child. FHP troopers and firefighters from two departments surrounded the vehicles.
The child’s mother, a 35-year-old woman from Sunrise, was trapped after she stopped next to the northbound inside lane of the I-75 Express lanes, and the driver of the moving Ford struck into the GMC, according to FHP.
Fire Rescue personnel from both Davie and the Broward Sheriff’s Office worked together to free the woman. Davie Fire Rescue personnel used a helicopter to take her to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.
Fire Rescue also used an ambulance to rush a person who was injured while in the Ford. The cause of the crash remained under investigation on Friday.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editors Wilson Louis, Luis Castro, and Joyce Ortega contributed to this report.
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