Five women were killed Saturday when the sedan they were riding in was hit head-on by another vehicle on a South Florida expressway, authorities said.
The women were inside a gray Honda sedan on the Palmetto Expressway near Hialeah at about 4:30 a.m. when their vehicle was hit by a man driving the wrong way in a silver Infiniti sedan, the Miami Herald reported.
Update 1:04 p.m. EDT Aug. 21: According to online court records, Maiky Simeon, 30, of Miami Gardens, has not had a driver’s license since a 2014 ticket in Collier County for driving 109 mph, the Miami Herald reported. Simeon also still owes $1,070.38 in traffic fines to Miami-Dade and Collier counties, according to the newspaper.
A search of online court records and a database show that Simeon has been ticketed in nine traffic incidents since 2013. He has been convicted in four of these cases, the Herald reported.
Driver in Palmetto crash that killed 5 lost his license in 2014 after going 109 mph, records show https://t.co/oOjcfw8Euy
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) August 21, 2022
Original report: According to Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Alejandro Camacho, all five women were killed and the man in the Infiniti was seriously injured, the newspaper reported.
BREAKING NEWS: 5 dead after wrong-way crash on Palmetto Expressway https://t.co/F4qoxFOFRy
— WPLG Local 10 News (@WPLGLocal10) August 20, 2022
The FHP later identified the injured driver as 30-year-old Maiky Simeon, WPLG-TV reported.
“Our crews had to use the jaws of life to crop out one victim that was trapped in his vehicle,” Marc Chavers, the division chief for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, told WTVJ. “Unfortunately in the other vehicle there was no one alive to be saved.”
Investigators have not named any of the victims in the Honda, the Herald reported.
#TrafficAlert:
— FHP Miami (@FHPMiami) August 20, 2022
The westbound lanes of State Road 826 are currently shutdown.
Troopers are on scene investigating a fatal traffic crash.
Motorists are urged to avoid the area and seek alternate routes. pic.twitter.com/6JdSXq3wVG
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