Dolphin Expy. Re-Opened After Deadly Crash
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- A section of the Dolphin Expressway was shut down for hours Monday morning after a deadly car crash.
It all happened in the westbound lanes of State Road 836 between Northwest 12th and 17th Avenues.
The driver of a compact car hit a concrete wall around 4:30 a.m., sending the car spinning and debris flying.
The driver's side window landed yards away from the car, and the man behind the wheel was thrown to the other side of the highway.
"I glanced across the road and I'm like 'oh man he's over there.' I'm like 'oh, he's dead man.' I felt really bad for him. I prayed for him though, prayed for him and his family," said Lynard Vaughner who drove a semi-tractor trailer truckthrough the crash scene after it happened.
Vaughner quickly became concerned for his own safety.
"Coming over the bridge headed to dump my truck off and first thing I see is a lot of debris over the road, so I tried to brake. But my truck is kind of heavy so I couldn't brake too fast. Couldn't swerve either or I would hit someone or flip my truck," said Vaughner.
Vaughner ended up running over the engine block that had fallen out of the compact car.
"So I end up running over his motor, dragging it down the road while it was on fire. So when I got down there I jumped out, put the fire out," said Vaughner. "It was already on fire so that's what kind of had me afraid that my truck was going to explode. Because it's a hydraulic truck and a gas diesel truck so I was like let me hurry up and put the fire out. I called out to see if anyone was alive, but when we got here, he was dead man."
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the accident, and have not yet released the name of the driver who was killed.
