An 18-year-old woman was killed after a string of crashes in Miami-Dade County ended with a motorcycle wreck, authorities said.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said deputies first responded around 11:30 p.m., Sunday, to the area of Northwest 72nd Avenue and Northwest 58th Street for a missing person report.

Detectives returned the next morning and found a body floating in a nearby canal.

The victim was later identified as Angelina Plasencia.

Investigators said Plasencia was one of several passengers in a vehicle that fled the scene of a crash at Northwest 74th Avenue and Northwest 58th Street.

The vehicle was later involved in a second crash on the northbound ramp of State Road 826 at Northwest 58th Street, where the occupants abandoned it and left on foot.

Deputies said the group th

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