Broward Sheriff’s Office traffic homicide detectives are investigating a car crash that left an unidentified passenger on a scooter dead early Sunday morning.

At approximately 1:25 a.m. Dec. 8, Giuseppe Daal and an unidentified female passenger were on a scooter traveling westbound on Northeast 48th Street in the left thru lane, approaching the 700 block, in Deerfield Beach. Brandon Butler, who was driving in a car behind Daal, did not observe the scooter and collided with the rear of the vehicle.

As a result of the impact, Daal and the unidentified passenger were ejected from the scooter, and the scooter was projected into the eastbound lanes.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue transported both occupants to Broward Health North where the unidentified female was pronounced dead. Daal sustained life-threatening injuries and remains in the intensive care unit. Butler did not sustain any injuries and remained on scene.