PLANTATION, Fla. — One day before his 41st birthday, a Miami Gardens man turned himself in to face a vehicular homicide charge on Tuesday in connection with what police said was a deadly high-speed crash in Plantation nearly six years prior.
Authorities said the crash happened on West Sunrise Boulevard just after 9:30 p.m. on July 7, 2020. An investigator with the Plantation Police Department authored a probable cause affidavit in the case on Dec. 23, 2025.
In that affidavit, a detective said Darryl Okeefe Efford, then 35, was driving 100 mph in his 2019 Subaru WRX ― a high-performance compact car ― west when he T-boned a 2013 Mercedes with two people inside as its driver tried to turn left onto Northwest 43rd Avenue.
The crash killed one person and injured another. The victims’ identities were redacted from a police report posted to the Broward Clerk of Courts website.
Police said data from the airbag control module showed that Efford was going more than 85 mph five seconds before impact and had sped up ― at “100% acceleration” ― to 100 mph about a second before the wreck.
The speed limit on that stretch of Sunrise Boulevard is 45 mph.
According to PPD, the results of a traffic crash reconstruction by a consulting firm “revealed Efford’s actions displayed willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others on the road.”
Police said the firm also performed a time-distance analysis concluding that if Efford had been driving at the speed limit, the crash “would not have occurred.”
Regarding the other driver, authorities said the firm concluded that “a non-impaired and non-distracted driver would have made the same left turn that (he or she) attempted to make.”
Efford pleaded not guilty after turning himself in on Tuesday. He was no longer in the Broward jail as of Wednesday morning.
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