Taxi Falls From Expressway 35 Feet Onto Street
A taxicab driver was hospitalized Monday morning after his cab plummeted about 35 feet off an expressway, landing on a busy street below. It happened about 7 a.m. as the taxi was traveling east on State Road 112, also known as the Airport Expressway, approaching southbound Interstate 95.According to Miami fire-rescue spokesman Lt. Ignatius Carroll Jr., the driver was traveling at a high rate of speed when he “loses control and basically pinballs on the expressway, knocking from guardrail to guardrail before he eventually came off of the expressway about 35 feet onto 36th Street.”
The driver was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with serious injuries, but he was expected to survive. Witnesses said there were no passengers in the cab at the time. Carroll said it was amazing the driver survived the fall. “It’s also amazing that he did not strike any other vehicles” either on the expressway or on 36th Street, Carroll said.