{"id":342312,"date":"2026-07-16T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342312\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:05:09","slug":"fhp-tanker-truck-driver-killed-in-crash-on-florida-turnpike-at-bird-road-in-southwest-miami-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342312\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP: Tanker truck driver killed in crash on Florida Turnpike at Bird Road in southwest Miami-Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM<\/p>\n<p>Crash leaves all lanes of the Florida Turnpike blocked near Bird Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A tanker truck driver was killed Thursday after the truck overturned and crashed into a concrete median barrier on the Florida Turnpike near Bird Road in southwest Miami-Dade, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/16\/incendio-de-camion-con-remolque-cierra-rampa-de-la-autopista-turnpike-de-florida-en-bird-road-en-el-suroeste-de-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/16\/incendio-de-camion-con-remolque-cierra-rampa-de-la-autopista-turnpike-de-florida-en-bird-road-en-el-suroeste-de-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Troopers said the tanker truck was traveling south on the Turnpike near Bird Road when the driver lost control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the truck overturned and collided with the center median concrete barrier wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities confirmed that the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the scene around 10:45 a.m., where a heavily charred tractor-trailer as firefighters continued spraying water on it. Light smoke could still be seen rising from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash shut down the Florida Turnpike in both directions as authorities investigated. It was not immediately clear what caused the driver to lose control of the truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details about the truck driver or crash were immediately released. <\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM Updated:\u00a0July 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM Crash leaves all lanes of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-342312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342312","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=342312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}