By Jessica Weiss, MiamiNewTimes, SouthFloridaReporter.com, Jan. 10, 2016 – Just after 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, a 23-year-old chef named Alexandra Lefler, driving a white pickup truck, entered the northbound I-95 express lanes near Miami Gardens Drive — heading in the wrong direction. Minutes later, she slammed head-on into a Hyundai, killing all four of its passengers and herself in one of the grisliest accidents in South Florida last year.
But the accident is just the latest in a troubling pattern of wrong-way crashes on South Florida expressways, experts say. And some are asking whether highway planners could do more to prevent drivers like Lefler from barreling head-on into oncoming traffic.
“These types of incidents seem to be happening more than ever before,” says Miami Fire Rescue Captain Faye Davis, a 24-year veteran of the department. “Now it seems like it’s almost every couple of weeks — just way too often. Something has to be done.”
And indeed, statistics show these types of crashes happen in Miami-Dade at a surprisingly high rate.
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