Truck crashes over wall, slams into vehicle on Palmetto Expressway leading to highway closure, deputies say

The Palmetto Expressway has reopened in Miami-Dade more than six hours after officials were forced to close the major South Florida highway when a truck crashed through a cement wall and into another vehicle early Friday morning.

And the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO) says that investigators are "confident" that this was a death by suicide of the truck driver, who they identify on Friday evening as 26-year-old Reinerio De La Torre Toledo. 

According to the MDSO, a pickup truck had been traveling eastbound on Northwest 54th Street just before 6:30 a.m. when it traveled through the intersection and slammed into a concrete barrier.

After that, deputies said the truck went through the barrier and crashed into a vehicle that had been traveling in the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway in Doral.

CBS News Miami spoke with a man who worked just a few feet from where the chaotic scene unfolded early Friday morning and described what he heard and saw.

"We heard a loud crash inside the office," Nestor Castellon said. "We looked around thinking that it was something that happened inside the office. And when we looked, we saw the pickup on top of the other car. It was horrible."

The truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene, and the driver of the other vehicle was rushed to a hospital via a medical helicopter. He has only been identified by police as an adult male and is in stable condition. 

During the investigation, CBS News Miami spotted investigators removing a weapon from the truck.

"We can confirm that a firearm has been recovered at the scene, and detectives are confident that this case was a suicide by the driver of the pickup truck," the MDSO said in a Friday afternoon update.

No other information was released, and the incident remains under investigation.