When a City of Miami Public Works dump truck was traveling eastbound on Northwest Seventh Street, Pamela Kay Plummer was in the back seat of a Diamond Cab yellow taxi.
According to police Austin Zvend, 59, was in the driver's seat. His foot was on the break at Northwest 17th Avenue in Miami's Little Havana.
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Surveillance video shows the dump truck collided with the back of the cab. The impact killed Plummer and seriously injured Zvend, who remained at Jackson Memorial Hospital Saturday.
Plummer's family was mourning the loss Saturday. City of Miami Police Department spokesperson Kenia Fallat said they had been notified she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 66-year-old woman had been a customer of Diamond Cab for at least 25 years, Diamond Cab manager Willy Acosta said. She was the only one to die in the chaotic Friday crash.
After the truck hit the cab, "several vehicles at the intersection spun and collided with one another," Fallat said.
There were 10 injured, including four who Miami Rescue rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.
The crash in numbers:
- 11 vehicles -- including a motor scooter and the dump truck
- Miami Fire Rescue treated 10 injured
- Rescue took 7 to local hospitals
- 4 of the injured were in serious condition. They were Zvend, the unidentified driver of the City of Miami dump truck and two passengers of one of the vehicles involved.