Photographer nearly hit when driver darts away from crash scene Updated: Tags: Local 10 photographer narrowly avoids injury in hit-and-run crash MIAMI – Frank Melendez says he experienced a close call Tuesday morning during a hit-and-run crash on the Airport Expressway near Miami. Melendez, who works as a photographer for Local 10, says he was driving into work — heading east on State Road 112 — when he was rear-ended by the driver of a red car near Northwest 22nd Avenue. While Melendez wasn’t hurt, he says as soon as he got out of the car to inspect the damage, he noticed the other driver getting ready to take off.