When police caught him amidst a petty crime spree in a casino parking lot yesterday, Obrian Oakley decided to run. As he peeled away from deputies in his Infiniti, what would have been a couple misdemeanor theft charges turned into two counts of first-degree murder against the 26-year-old from Miami…
A cyclist was hit on the Rickenbacker Causeway and remains in the hospital in critical condition. The incident occurred yesterday near the Rusty Pelican restaurant.The Miami Herald reports that a BMW hit the cyclist, but Local 10 has pictures of a dark-green Jeep SUV with a dented windshield that was…
Police are searching for the driver of a car that plowed into a man on North Miami Avenue on early Saturday morning, but didn’t even bother to stop. The victim was Carl Jones, a homeless man who was trying to cross the street and was killed on the scene. The…
Hope you weren’t expecting a package.A UPS driver today lost control of his truck, which hit a tree and then ended up plunging into Biscayne Bay. The demolished vehicle now sits submerged in water…
That sound dinging across the state this Sunday isn’t just the litany of SunPass sensors going off on the Turnpike. It’s the fists of outraged drivers pinging off the ceiling. Tolls on all state roads will rise by 25 percent this weekend — from $1 to $1.25 — sparking road-fee…
For the past month, British adventurer Dave Cornthwaite has peddled a small bike-car from Memphis to Miami. Along the way he’s burned more calories than the Miami Marlins’ entire roster and braved hordes of alligators, snakes, and blood-sucking mosquitoes. But the most dangerous creature he’s met is one Miami knows…
In a $1.8 million effort to control crowds (and, lets be honest, discourage Urban Beach Week festivities from happening in the future), South Beach will resemble nothing short of a police state this weekend. Though, The Miami Herald’s Miami Beach reporter David Smiley tweets that “projected Memorial Day weekend Miami…
We demand a recount. The INRIX Traffic Scorecard says that Miami only has the 12th worst traffic congestion in the country. Anyone who has ever been stuck in Miami traffic knows it’s the worst thing ever. No, literally the worst thing ever. The official ranks of worst things ever might as…
Transportation in the City of Miami is about to become more of a shared experience. Following the lead of Miami Beach, the City announced that they’ll launch a car sharing program this summer and the Miami Herald reports the city also is looking into the possibility of a bike sharing…
When Carlos Bertonatti slammed into cyclist Christophe LeCanne on the Rickenbacker Causeway in January 2010, killing the 44-year-old on the spot, advocates begged the County to make the bike lanes safer. Nothing happened. This past February, almost the exact same tragedy repeated: This time, the driver was Michele Traverso and…
Pity Jorge Exposito. There, but for the grace of God, go you. Exposito shared with us his tale of highway toll woe. He owns a SunPass transponder, which he thought was replenished. But in late April, he got a letter from a collection agency telling him he owed $691.80. Before…
The facts seem pretty clear: On Feb. 15, Michele Traverso, a 25-year-old with a suspended license, slammed into two cyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway after he’d spent a long night drinking in Coconut Grove. Traverso then sped away, leaving one of the cyclists, Aaron Cohen, a father of two, dying…
Miami’s roads are known for two things: insanely bad driving and fancy cars. It’s always a shame when the two combine, especially when a wreck involves somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000 worth of automotive extravagance.Friday night out front of the Epic Hotel in downtown a Maserati GranTurismo S (worth…
What are you doing in this house, school bus? School buses don’t belong in houses. Go back on the street where you belong, school bus.Oh, it was all that asshole SUV’s fault? You really are a jerk, SUV. Thankfully, you didn’t cause any serious injuries to humans, SUV. Updated. …
Does your daily commute take your through the interchange of the Dolphin and Palmetto Expressways? Well, we’re sorry for your daily dose of traffic torture, but there’s some good news. The Florida Department of Transportation will pay you up to $75 a month to carpool. It’s true!…
Back in the ’60s, Coral Gables banned pickup trucks from being parked outside in residential neighborhoods and has stubbornly defended the zoning law ever since. But could a new era of pickup truck freedom dawn in the City Beautiful? Well, maybe, but the city continues to drag its feet, and…
Ultra Music Festival is taking it to the streets — literally. A few blocks of northbound lanes of Biscayne Boulevard will be closed Thursday night through early Monday morning. Plan your route accordingly, and as a favor to yourself and the drivers who can’t avoid it, consider staying out of…
The notorious red light cameras in North Bay Village see all and fine all for running a red light without discrimination, even those who no human traffic cop would dare right up. Like, for example, those taking part in a funeral procession. Yet, the cameras apparently made no exception for…
Miami loves its bold faced names almost as much as it hates its traffic, and today the sheer amount of star power in town may very well overwhelm our roadways. Not only is the leader of the free world making a visit to Coral Gables today, but Linsanity comes to…
Reporter Adrienne Pedersen was doing a boring little segment this morning on gas prices when more exciting news happened directly behind her. A car and a cab collided on camera as Pedersen gave her report, and the news reporter didn’t even blink. Watch the video below…
Michele Traverso, the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway, made his first appearance in court this morning and voluntarily submitted to a drug test. Despite previous arrests for possession of marijuana and cocaine, Traverso’s drug test came back clean…
When police arrested 25-year-old Michele Traverso yesterday on charges that he fatally struck a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway before speeding away, Miami cyclists felt a tragic sense of déjà vu. Just over two years ago, police say another young driver named Carlos Bertonatti ran after fatally hitting another cyclist…
