Broward County, FL — December 5, 2025, one person was killed and one was injured following a FedEx semi-truck accident at 3:30 a.m. on the Florida Turnpike.
The Florida Highway Patrol said that the accident happened along southbound lanes of the turnpike near the I-595 interchange.
It appears that a Mercedes SUV was stopped along the highway. While it was there, authorities say that a FedEx 18-wheeler crashed into the Mercedes from behind. This resulted in the death of one of the SUV’s occupants. Another reportedly had serious injuries.
Right now, additional details about the accident are unavailable.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
The details here are still scarce. I want to be clear I don’t know more about this specific crash than anyone else in the public. However, I’ve handled hundreds of commercial vehicle accident cases, and I’ve seen too many mishandled during the delicate early days of the investigations.
Obviously, there needs to be further investigations to understand why this truck wasn’t able to avoid the stopped SUV. More than that, though, investigators need to answer whether or not that failure to avoid a collision was reasonable. Here’s what I mean by that.
Right now, the news doesn’t specify if the victims’ vehicle stopped just for traffic or if it was disabled and blocking the lanes of travel. But either way, if a reasonably prudent professional driver should have been able to avoid this, why didn’t that happen here? One of the best ways to find out is to preserve electronic evidence as soon as possible. This includes data from cellphones, Engine Control Modules, GPS, and even cameras that may have captured the incident on video.
Let me give an example of what this may look like. A while back, we had a case involving a semi-truck that hit a disabled car on a dark highway. The initial explanation was that the victim’s vehicle simply wasn’t visible. As soon as we were brought in to investigate, though, we were able to pull video from a dash camera that was on the truck as well as video from a camera inside the driver’s cabin. What that evidence showed was nothing short of shocking.
The video revealed two key pieces of evidence. The dash cam video showed the victim’s car was clearly visible nearly three-quarters of a mile down the road. Any reasonably prudent driver would have been able to see and avoid it. The truck driver didn’t. Why? As the truck’s cabin camera revealed, the driver was too busy watching videos on his tablet to bother looking up at the road. By the time he did, it was too late.
If we hadn’t worked to secure it early on, who knows if it ever would have seen the light of day. Trucking companies routinely delete and overwrite that video footage. That’s why working through the courts to compel them to preserve that information is paramount. And that’s not including all of the other possibly time-sensitive evidence that can stem from a fatal truck wreck.
To put this another way, things aren’t open-and-shut just because a truck rear-ended someone. For all anyone knows, this all was simply unavoidable. But that’s up to the evidence to say for sure. The sooner steps are taken to preserve evidence and get it to the victims’ families, the more answers they’ll have going forward. I see no reason why this crash would be an exception to that.
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