NBC6’s Jessica Vallejo is live from SW Miami-Dade where one person was killed and two were injured in a violent crash caught on camera.
A man was killed and two other people were hospitalized after a violent rollover crash in a southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood Friday morning, officials said.
The crash happened around 8 a.m. at the intersection of Southwest 21st Terrace and 92nd Avenue in Westchester.
Video from a nearby house showed a silver pickup truck and a white work van colliding at the intersection.
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Aerial footage showed the pickup truck on its side in front of a home with major damage. The van, which had heavy front-end damage, could be seen in the yard of the home next door.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said two people who were in the van were taken to a local hospital as trauma alerts and were in critical condition.
The crash damaged other parked cars and investigators said a man who was in the pickup truck did not survive.
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Two other people who were inside the truck fled on foot, police said.
"The wreckage of this traffic accident is pretty horrific so there is a good chance that the two individuals who fled may be injured but there's really no way to tell until we locate those two people," Miami-Dade Police Dte. Andre Martin said.
According to police, the incident began with a theft at a convenience store. A Miami-Dade Schools Police officer who was looking for the suspected thieves came across the crash scene.
It's unknown if the people in the truck may have been connected to the theft.
Police haven't released the identities of anyone involved but the mother of one of the people inside the van identified her son as 30-year-old Alexis Gonzalez. She said the other person in the van is 24 years old.
Sebastian Lopez, who lives on the corner, said he woke up to the sound of the impact.
“It sounded like a bullet," Lopez said. "It was crazy."
No other information was immediately known.
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