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Two arrests have been made after a mother and her 4-year-old daughter were found shot to death on the Florida Turnpike.
A routine morning commute turned into a terrifying ordeal when a large piece of metal debris, later identified as a wrench, flew through the windshield of a car traveling on the Florida Turnpike near Doral, narrowly missing the driver before smashing through the back windshield and striking another vehicle.
Two fatal crashes prompted southbound closures on the Florida Turnpike on Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Miami-Dade County. Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded.
A 4-year-old girl and her mother died after a shooting on the Florida Turnpike in Broward County, and now Crime Stoppers are increasing their award for information that leads to an arrest.
A South Florida middle school student discussed the experience of seeing the bus she'd just been traveling on going up in flames on the side of the highway.
A crash caused southbound traffic delays on Monday morning on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade County.
Authorities shut down all lanes heading northbound on the Florida Turnpike as the Florida Highway Patrol conducts an investigation on a possible fatal crash in Lauderhill on Saturday morning.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers closed several northbound lanes on the Florida Turnpike after a crash that was causing traffic delays on Wednesday morning in South Florida.
A defense attorney said Wednesday in court that his 21-year-old client — who he described as a star football player with a college scholarship and no prior criminal record — was falsely accused of three murders and four attempted murders in a 2021 shooting in Miami-Dade County.
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.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, a black Toyota sedan and a silver Ford Sedan were traveling north on the Turnpike when the front of the Toyota collided with the rear of the Ford.
Rescue units responded to the scene at Northwest 27th Avenue and the Florida Turnpike in Miami Gardens early Saturday afternoon.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, the victim was driving a black Hyundai Genesis SUV south on the Turnpike in the area of Northwest 199th Street.
A kid was at the Juvenile Assessment Center on Thursday night in Broward County after leading a bi-county police pursuit in a stolen car, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.
A driver of a white Nissan is shot in the back on the Florida Turnpike and Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the incident as a possible road rage shooting.
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A possible stolen vehicle was spotted in Broward County on Saturday morning, and the driver led authorities on a chase when they tried to pull him over.
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DORAL, Fla. – An early morning crash took place Sunday in the northbound lanes of the Turnpike extension. According to Florida Highway Patrol, a white Dodge pickup was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes at approximately 6:30 a.m. Three vehicles were involved in a wrong-way crash on the Florida Turnpike. She said she was driving northbound on the turnpike when she noticed the white pickup truck heading in the wrong direction. She said the other two drivers, however, were taken to the hospital, including the driver of that white pickup truck.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A fatal crash caused traffic delays on Tuesday afternoon after shutting down the Florida Turnpike’s southbound lanes in Miami-Dade County’s Princeton area. A motorhome that was towing a Jeep, both with Texas license plates, crashed at the Turnpike’s Exit 9 ramp to Southwest 112th Avenue, also known as Allapattah Road. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. A fiery crash caused traffic delays on the Florida Turnpike Tuesday afternoon in south Miami-Dade County. (FDOT)Traffic backed up to the Exit 12 ramp to Caribbean Boulevard in Cutler Bay, according to the Florida Department of Transportation’s Advanced Traveler Information System.
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DORAL, Fla. – A Miami-Dade police officer and two civilians were injured in a car crash on Friday afternoon that left both a police cruiser and a pickup truck with severe frontal damage in Doral. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel decided to take the officer and the two civilians to a nearby hospital. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to a police-involved crash on Friday in Doral. Miami-Dade detectives and Doral police officers remain at the scene as the investigation into the cause of the crash continues. The driver of a pickup truck and an officer driving a marked Miami-Dade police car crashed on Friday in Doral.
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MIRAMAR, Fla. – A South Florida family is morning after a deadly crash on the Florida Turnpike over the weekend. A car full of children, none old enough to drive, crashed through a guardrail and went into a canal. To Jessica Bocanegra, her 13-year-old nephew Julian was more like a son to her. He was always writing songs.”Troopers say Julian was in the vehicle when the car crashed Saturday night near mile marker 47. “My nephew didn’t get a reflection, my nephew didn’t get a second chance to live life.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – One person suffered a spinal cord injury on Thursday night after a crash on the Florida Turnpike in Miami-Dade County. Florida Highway Patrol troopers temporarily closed the Turnpike’s southbound lanes at Bird Road. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded. For the latest traffic updates, view the Local10.com interactive map.
Salazar was the victim of a murder-for-hire plot devised by Presidente Supermarket owner Manuel Marin, after Marin learned of Salazars affair with his then-wife, Jenny Marin, investigators said. Vila Perdomo and Isaac are facing second-degree murder charges for the kidnapping and murder of Salazar. On Wednesday, Vila Perdomo and Isaac looked on as an independent cellphone geolocation expert shared location information from the day of Salazars disappearance and murder from 2011. Authorities discovered Salazars body at 6:30 p.m.By 6:38 p.m., Marins vehicle was 13 miles south at the Bird Road exit off the Florida Turnpike. Vila Perdomo was in Las Vegas, cellphone records indicated, though call records revealed several calls to him, and between all four suspects throughout the day.
Google StreetviewPALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - Authorities are closing three service plazas on the Florida Turnpike ahead of Hurricane Dorian's impending tropical storm-force winds, according to the Florida Department of Transportation. The three service plazas are in West Palm Beach, Fort Pierce and Fort Drum. The closures affect the service plazas' convenience store, food plaza and fuel pumps. The West Palm Beach plaza closed at 5 p.m. Monday, the Fort Pierce plaza closes at 8 p.m. and the Fort Drum plaza closes at 8 a.m. Tuesday. For more information, visit the Florida Turnpike site."
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MIAMI-DADE, Fla. – Two multi-vehicle crashes with injuries were causing delays on the Florida Turnpike northbound on Saturday. The first crash was near West Okeechobee Road and the second crash was near U.S. 27.
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