Driver dead after crash, vehicle fire in Weston
A motorist died in a car crash and fire in Weston early Sunday, officials said.
Broward Sheriff’s deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire-Rescue responded to a vehicle fire near Bonaventure Boulevard and State Road 84 at about 3:30 a.m., according to the sheriff’s office, where first responders found a car “fully engulfed in flames.”
The vehicle had been involved in a single-car crash, a sheriff’s spokesperson said via text. When the fire was extinguished, the driver was found and pronounced dead.
Video aired by several South Florida TV stations showed a burned, severely damaged car near the pillar of a highway overpass.
Bonaventure Boulevard was closed at the on-ramp to State Road 84 for several hours Sunday morning. The City of Weston posted on social media that the road was reopened shortly before 8 a.m.
It is unclear what caused the crash, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said. Traffic homicide detectives were investigating
