Multi-Car Accident On Turnpike Sends 2 People To Hospital
Two Injured In Crash
POSTED: Monday, August 11, 2008
UPDATED: 4:03 am EDT August 12,
2008
WEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. -- Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a multi-car accident in the southbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike in West Miami-Dade.
Two people were injured in the afternoon accident near Southwest 8th Street, authorities said.
A total of three cars were involved in the accident, investigators said.
A driver had to be extricated from a car after it flipped over and had a light pole fall on it, authorities said.
The driver was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital, officials said.
Another person was taken to the hospital by ambulance with minor injuries.
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