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A 22-year-old Hispanic woman died on Thursday early in the morning after crashing her car into a public transport bus in Miami Gardens, in Miami-Dade County.
According to Telemundo, the collision occurred around 5:00 a.m. at the intersection of NW 199th Street and NW 7th Avenue, one of the busiest in the city.
The Miami Gardens Police reported that they responded to the collision between a gray Hyundai Sonata and a Miami-Dade Transit bus.
The preliminary investigation indicates that the Hyundai was traveling east on NW 199 Street and ran a red light, colliding with the public transit bus, which was turning left onto NW 7 Avenue with a green signal.
A surveillance video captured the exact moment of the impact: the bus was turning left at the traffic light when the car struck it forcefully from the front.
The driver of the Hyundai was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. The authorities have not revealed her identity.
Images from the scene showed the gray sedan with severe damage to the front and a yellow tarp covering the body of the person who was in the car.
The bicycle rack of the articulated bus was embedded in the completely destroyed front of the Hyundai, with debris scattered throughout the intersection.
The bus driver received first aid from the firefighters after showing injuries and was taken to a local hospital. At least one passenger from the bus was also hospitalized following the incident, according to reports from the authorities.
The investigation was entrusted to traffic homicide detectives from the Miami Gardens Police, who have the recordings from the bus surveillance cameras and the intersection to reconstruct the sequence of the accident.
The partial closure of NW 199 Street caused traffic diversions heading east towards the south and a reduction to a single lane heading west. Authorities recommended using Miami Gardens Drive or NW 183 Street as alternative routes.
This accident adds to a series of recent traffic tragedies in Miami Gardens. In February 2025, a drunk driver traveling at 99 miles per hour killed five people in the city, including four children. In December of that same year, a 12-year-old boy was killed by a vehicle near NW 37 Avenue and 194 Street.
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