A woman was killed in a wrong-way crash on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami Lakes early Friday, Florida Highway Patrol officials said.
The crash happened shortly after 2:30 a.m. when the driver of a white Hyundai sedan was going south in the northbound lanes in the area of Northwest 154th Street, according to FHP.
She hit a silver Toyota sedan that was going north, FHP said. The driver of the Hyundai died at the scene, authorities said.
The woman behind the wheel of the Toyota was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center with serious injuries.
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Officials haven't released the identities of anyone involved.
The northbound lanes of State Road 826 were closed for four hours before they reopened around 6:30 a.m.
"A clear message is, to educate people, that anytime you’re driving on a highway and the reflectors, you see reflectors that reflect red, that means you are going the wrong way — stop — it has to be white, the reflectors have to be white," said Joe Sanchez, a 36-year veteran of the FHP.
