MIAMI SHORES, FL : 1 dead, 2 injured after fiery crash in Miami Shores on Sunday, 19th May 2024

A 36-year-old man died and a woman was injured Sunday after a wrong-way crash in Miami Shores with a 41-year-old man who was driving home after an 11-hour date drinking, according to police.

According to Capt. Christine Herbert, of the Miami Shores Police Department, police officers spotted the fiery crash after 3:05 a.m., near Barry University. Miami-Dade traffic homicide detectives investigated it.

According to Detective Argemis Colome, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, Carlos Humberto Fabian collided with a car and a motorcycle on North Miami Avenue, near Northeast 108 Street.

Miami Shores police officers closed North Miami Avenue. Miami-Dade firefighters faced the flames coming from Fabian’s Volkswagen Jetta. Fire rescue personnel declared Bobby Jenkins, the motorcyclist, dead and took Lindsey Laquerre, the motorcycle’s passenger, to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

Hours after the crash, a white tarp covered Jenkins’s body near what was left of his KTM motorcycle. Laquerre had broken bones and a head concussion, according to police. The burned Jetta had crossed the grass and was on the sidewalk. It had stopped at a line of tall bushes near a house.

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