Florida: Palmetto Expressway Reopens After Driver Killed Following Crash With Fire Truck
Southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway have reopened after an early morning crash that killed one person after the car they were driving slammed into a Miami-Dade fire truck Thursday. Officials say the accident occurred just before Northwest 74th Street around 2:30 a.m. Fire rescue crews had responded to a call of a separate hit and run crash at the location and had blocked off the road when a 2014 Hyundai Sonata hit the fire truck.
The driver, 57-year-old Lizardo Alvarez, died at the scene. "Standard acting procedures are to block the incoming traffic, so our drivers position our vehicles in a way to block traffic," said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. Ernie Jillson.
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