A crash has the merging lane blocked where Golden Gate Parkway eastbound feeds onto Interstate 75 northbound at exit 105 in Naples, and a trooper reached the scene at 1.53 this afternoon with the roadblock still on the state board

The merging lane where Golden Gate Parkway eastbound feeds onto Interstate 75 northbound at exit 105 in Naples is blocked by a crash, and a trooper reached the scene at 1.53 this afternoon. On a reading taken at 1.55 the roadblock was still on the board.

The state dispatch board carries the call as a vehicle crash with a roadblock, received at 1.38, dispatched at 1.41 and with a trooper on scene at 1.53. The remarks read ROADBLOCK IN THE MERGING LANE OF I-75.

An earlier version of this item, published at 1.47, reported that the column the board uses to stamp a trooper reaching the scene was empty. It was empty then and it is filled now, and that is the only thing about this call that has changed. The remarks are unchanged, so a trooper being on scene should not be read as the road coming back. The board does not stamp the moment a remark changes, so no clearance time is claimed here, and none is on the row.

The board prints its times on a twelve hour clock with no AM or PM marker, so a stamp on it cannot fix the half of the day by itself. What fixes this one is polling. This desk's watcher reads the same board every five minutes and stamps each reading in UTC. The reading at 1.39 p.m. Eastern carried nothing new and the reading at 1.44 p.m. was the first to see this row, which places its appearance one to six minutes after the 1.38 receipt and settles the call as an afternoon one.

The coordinates published against the entry are latitude 26.18382, longitude minus 81.73532, which places it at the Golden Gate Parkway interchange with Interstate 75, in Collier County under a Naples address.

There is a second Collier entry on the same board this afternoon, and it is a separate call rather than part of this one. A construction closure logged at 8.36 this morning has the right lane of Interstate 75 northbound shut at mile marker 101, described as running all the way to the exit ramp. That sits about four miles south of the interchange and on the same northbound side, so a driver coming north from the Collier Boulevard area meets the construction before reaching the blocked merge.

Almost nothing else is established. No agency has released a vehicle count, an injury count, a name, a vehicle type or a cause. The Highway Patrol has published no statement and neither has the Collier County Sheriff's Office. Nobody has been accused of anything.

The entry type the state uses here carries the roadblock but does not carry an injury classification, so nothing in this item should be read as saying whether anyone was hurt.

Golden Gate Parkway and the ramps at exit 105 are on this board because the Highway Patrol was dispatched to them. What the board is confined to is Highway Patrol calls, so a crash worked by the Collier County Sheriff's Office or by Naples police alone would not appear, and an empty board should be read as nothing reported rather than nothing happening.

These are the only Highway Patrol entries in Collier or Lee county this afternoon, four of them out of eighty five open statewide. The National Weather Service has one active alert covering this county, a heat advisory running to 7 p.m. Eastern, which is carried separately by this desk and bears on this only for anyone who ends up standing outside a vehicle at the scene.