![]() ![]() Officers patrolling the highway had reopened the road when visibility improved. The FHP had briefly closed the highway before the crashes because of a mixture of fog and smoke from a marsh fire in the Paynes Prairie area south of Gainesville. "You heard like 15 times somebody hit, from this side and that, north and south. She told the paper that she could hear the other crashes. She pulled off the highway and called 911. She said her car struck a guardrail and ended up sideways in the outside lane. "We just hit it, and you couldn't see anything," said Henry, who was driving with friends back home to Palm Bay. Their conditions were unclear.Īt least 18 people hurt in the wreck were being treated at Shands at the University of Florida, said hospital spokeswoman Allison Wilson.ĭonna Henry told The Gainesville Sun that she was driving south on the interstate at 3:45 a.m. Riordan said several people were injured and taken to Gainesville hospitals. All lanes of the interstate remained closed as investigators began trying to figure out exactly what caused the wrecks. on both sides of I-75 south of Gainesville. Patrick Riordan said the pileups happened around 3:45 a.m. Photographs taken Sunday morning showed the burned-out shells of at least two vehicles and a tractor-trailer, with gray smoke still rising above the asphalt on an otherwise desolate Interstate 75.įlorida Highway Patrol Lt. Drivers will be detoured to a left onto Honore Avenue to a right onto Clark Road to I-75 northbound.GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Hazy fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire clouded a north Florida interstate overnight, leaving drivers blinded and causing wrecks that killed 10 people, authorities said Sunday. On Monday, May 1, at midnight to Tuesday, May 2 at 2 a.m., crews will close the SR 681 on-ramp to I-75 northbound.All I-75 northbound drivers will get off at Exit 195 and continue on Laurel to a right onto Honore Avenue to a right onto Clark Road to I-75 northbound. ![]() ![]()
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