A crash rocked a southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood early Friday morning, resulting in at least one fatality and two individuals being rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. The incident unfolded around 8:45 a.m. at the intersection of Southwest 21st Terrace and 92nd Avenue in Westchester, as reported by NBC Miami.
Authorities arrived at the scene where a white van and a silver pickup truck had collided, resulting in the truck being upended onto its side. The severity of the crash was punctuated by the total damage sustained by the vehicles, and debris littered the residential streets where the incident occurred. Aerial footage captured by local news illustrated the extent of the wreckage, with the van's heavy front-end damage and the pickup's final position suggesting the violent nature of the impact. According to information obtained by NBC Miami, other parked cars in the vicinity were also damaged.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials revealed that two of the crash victims were taken to a nearby hospital as trauma alerts. Based on the observations at the scene, someone in the pickup truck did not survive the ordeal. Sebastian Lopez, a resident who lives close to the crash site, described waking up to the frightening sound of the accident, telling NBC Miami, "It sounded like a bullet, it was crazy."
The specifics of how the crash occurred remain unclear. CBS Miami confirmed the crash happened shortly after 8 a.m., though it wasn’t immediately clear if charges were expected to be filed in the aftermath of the incident.
