Violent crash involving Miami Gardens law enforcement officer, DUI suspect caught on visitors cameras

MIAMI — The Miami Gardens Police Office on Thursday launched new website traffic digital camera video clip that showed an early early morning crash in between just one of its officers and a suspected drunk driver.

The officer and two other folks in the other vehicle have been taken to Jackson Ryder Trauma Center, where by the policeman is predicted to recover after becoming dealt with for an injury to his shoulder, law enforcement Main Delma Noel-Pratt said. The division declined to determine the officer, indicating only that he has been used with them for 4 many years.

1 victim stays mentioned in severe condition as of Thursday afternoon whilst a different sufferer was mentioned in vital problem, in accordance to law enforcement.

Law enforcement said Luis Andrew James, 36, of Miramar, has been billed with DUI and other site visitors offenses adhering to the crash. He was taken to the Miami-Dade jail Wednesday but it was not obvious if bond has been established in the situation.

Investigators reported the officer was on program patrol and traveling southbound on 27th Avenue and approaching 167th Road when his law enforcement auto was struck by the driver of a black Dodge Charger that was westbound. Police explained the driver evidently ran a crimson light just before colliding with the officer.

The influence of the collision pushed the officer’s automobile up an embankment of the nearby Palmetto Expressway.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the officer was not harm.  

“An officer on the scene observed a powerful odor of alcohol on the driver’s breath, slurred speech and unsteadiness,” Noel-Pratt explained. “He was straight away put into law enforcement custody.”

James was also charged with trafficking crack cocaine and possession of hashish with the intent to distribute, according to law enforcement.

“The two passengers, one particular is in secure ailment at this time I believe they are continue to in the hospital,” Noel-Pratt mentioned. “The other passenger appropriate now is in extra extreme affliction at this time and actually might not make it.”

Police explained throughout a news convention that the crash could have been avoided if the driver and his passengers experienced employed a rideshare assistance or specified a driver who had not consumed alcohol. 

Officials employed the event to alert the community about driving beneath the affect throughout the holiday period.