{"id":392005,"date":"2026-09-06T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392005\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:26:34","slug":"crash-blocks-turnpike-southbound-in-miami-dade-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392005\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash blocks Turnpike southbound in Miami-Dade County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 5, 2026 at 3:58 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/V5PRRJKLINGOLOVSDJZKCDL6UQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Roadway blocked on the Florida Turnpike, also known as State Road 821,  southbound at Mile Marker 23, near Bird Road, on Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A crash blocked the southbound lanes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridasturnpike.com\/turnpike-projects\/thrulanes\/floridas-turnpike-mainline\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/floridasturnpike.com\/turnpike-projects\/thrulanes\/floridas-turnpike-mainline\/\">Florida Turnpike<\/a> near Bird Road on Saturday afternoon in Miami-Dade County, <a href=\"https:\/\/trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov\/SmartWebClient\/CadView.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov\/SmartWebClient\/CadView.aspx\">according <\/a>to the Florida Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/05\/accidente-bloquea-turnpike-en-direccion-sur-en-el-condado-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/05\/accidente-bloquea-turnpike-en-direccion-sur-en-el-condado-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded shortly after 12:40 p.m. on Saturday to one person injured at the southbound Turnpike\u2019s on-Ramp at Bird Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/firecalls\/calls.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/firecalls\/calls.html\">according<\/a> to MDFR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Only one lane was closed by 3:25 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov\/SmartWebClient\/CadView.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov\/SmartWebClient\/CadView.aspx\">according <\/a> to FHP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mari Ortiz contributed to this report. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM Updated:\u00a0September 5, 2026 at 3:58 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandRoadway blocked on the Florida Turnpike,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-392005","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\/392005","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=392005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}