MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - Police closed down a road in Miami Gardens following a car crash.
On Friday morning, a Miami-Dade Police detective was driving west on Northwest 183rd Street while another vehicle, driving eastbound, collided with the unmarked police car.
Both cars were engulfed in flames immediately after the crash, but fire crews quickly extinguished the blaze.
Linda Blackshear is a regular at the Miami Gardens Senior Family Center and she said these types of traffic crashes have become all too regular.
“It was scary. This is the second one within three weeks,” she said. “I don’t know what’s going on.”
This area is the site of another crash that happened just three weeks ago, with the driver crashing and taking out three lamp posts along the roadway.
Video footage showed Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transporting a woman to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital after she suffered burns on her body.
The detective was also transported to the hospital but has since been released.
Another man inside the civilian vehicle was treated on the scene with minor cuts to his body.
“They should consider safety, their lives and others,” said Blackshear.
This crash has led to road closures on Miami Gardens Drive between the 12th and 14th avenues but they have since been reopened.
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