Puerto Rico Police reopened the San Juan-to-Caguas stretch of the Las Américas Expressway (PR-18) near Américo Miranda Avenue after closing it to investigate a serious crash, Rodolfo León, the Police Bureau’s assistant Traffic director, told Primera Hora. The driver involved was in stable condition, León said. According to the report León sent the newspaper, the crash was reported at about 9:04 AM on Saturday, November 14, 2026, on PR-18 at kilometer 3.7, just past the exit toward Américo Miranda Avenue, in the north-to-south direction in San Juan.
Agent Pablo Feliciano, assigned to the San Juan Highway Patrol Division, found that a 27-year-old driver who lives in Bayamón was driving a blue 2023 Kia Rio when, on reaching the spot, he was traveling at a speed that did not let him keep control of the wheel. The car hit the concrete barrier on the right edge of the road, rebounded and came to rest blocking the left-side lanes, the report says.
León said the driver was not ejected from the vehicle and was taken to the Centro Médico in Río Piedras, where doctor Fernando Johlar reported his condition stable. The San Juan Traffic Division investigated.