{"id":236011,"date":"2026-04-17T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236011\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:27:15","slug":"detectives-believe-driver-whose-pickup-truck-went-over-barrier-wall-onto-palmetto-expressway-took-his-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236011\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives believe driver whose pickup truck went over barrier wall onto Palmetto Expressway took his own life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 17, 2026 at 9:44 AM<\/p>\n<p>MDSO: Detectives recover gun at sceneA driver died Friday morning after a crash in northwest Miami-Dade sent a pickup truck over a barrier wall, onto the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway, and now detectives believe the victim\u2019s death was an act of suicide, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A driver died Friday morning after a crash in northwest Miami-Dade sent a pickup truck over a barrier wall, onto the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway, and now detectives believe the victim\u2019s death was an act of suicide, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/17\/mdso-muere-conductor-tras-accidente-que-lanzo-camioneta-sobre-muro-hacia-autopista-palmetto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/17\/mdso-muere-conductor-tras-accidente-que-lanzo-camioneta-sobre-muro-hacia-autopista-palmetto\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, the crash was reported at 6:24 a.m. in the area of Northwest 54th Street and 77th Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAccording to investigators, a pickup truck was traveling eastbound on NW 54 Street when it continued through the intersection and collided with a concrete barrier wall,\u201d MDSO said in a news release. \u201cThe vehicle went over the barrier wall and entered the southbound lanes of State Road 826 (Palmetto Expressway), where it struck another vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies confirmed that the driver of the pickup truck was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the other vehicle was transported to a nearby hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Detective Argemis \u201cAC\u201d Colome, a gun was recovered at the scene and detectives believe the driver of the truck took his own life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver\u2019s identity has not yet been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway were shut down after the crash, but have since reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MDSO\u2019s Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 17, 2026 at 9:44 AM MDSO: Detectives recover gun at sceneA driver died Friday morning after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-236011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}