I-75 MM111 Naples reopens two lanes, left lane still blocked

Two of the three northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples have reopened, ending a full closure that stood for about half an hour, with the left lane still blocked and the crash that caused it still being worked

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The Editorial Team · August 25, 2026

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What it changes

Northbound Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 is moving again, after a fashion. The right and center lanes are open, the left lane is still blocked, and the crash that closed the road entirely is still being worked. If you came off the interstate to get round the closure, or decided to wait it out, the picture has changed in your favour since half past five. The closure itself was short. The state was carrying two of the three northbound lanes blocked at 4.49, had gone to a full shutdown by 4.59, and was still carrying that at 5.26. By 5.29 the same row read that the right and center lanes are open, and the left lane alone was still down at 5.31. So the total northbound closure stood for roughly half an hour in the middle of the afternoon peak, and it is over. What has not changed is the call underneath it. This is the same crash received at 4.29, with a unit dispatched at 4.30 and on scene at 4.40, and the receipt time, dispatch time, arrival time, county, location string and published coordinates are identical to both earlier items from this desk. It is still typed as a crash with injuries and a roadblock. One lane down on a three lane interstate at this hour still means a queue, so expect the backup south of the marker to drain slowly rather than vanish, and give the scene room as you pass it. A few honest limits. The board gives no cause, no vehicle count, no injury count, no names and no vehicle types, and nothing here should be read as saying how badly anyone is hurt: the word injuries is the state's own classification of the call and is the whole of what the record says. The Highway Patrol has issued no statement and nobody has been accused of anything. There is also a second, separate crash on the board at this same mile marker, southbound, which the state says blocks nothing, so two sets of lights at one marker is what the record supports. And the same caution as before applies if you check the board yourself: it has no clearance column, so a row vanishing from it is the state ending publication of the call, not the state saying every lane is back. Treat the traffic you actually meet as better evidence than the absence of a row.

The Florida Highway Patrol has reopened two of the three northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples. The remarks field on the call now reads that the left lane is blocked and the right and center lanes are open, and it still read that at 5.31 this afternoon.

This is the same Collier County crash this desk wrote up at 4.38 and again at 5.06, not a new one. The call was received at 4.29, a unit was recorded dispatched at 4.30 and a unit reached the scene at 4.40. Those three stamps, along with the county, the location string and the published coordinates, are identical to both earlier readings. What has changed is the lane status, and this time it has moved in the direction drivers want.

The full closure was brief. The state was carrying the left and center lanes as blocked at 4.49, had escalated to all lanes closed by 4.59, and was still carrying that when this desk read the board at 5.26. By 5.29 the same row carried the reopening. The total northbound closure therefore stood for something close to half an hour, and no tighter time than between 5.26 and 5.29 is claimed for when it lifted.

It is the fifth description the state has given this one call, after a disabled vehicle with the center lane blocked, a crash with a roadblock, a crash with injuries with the left and center lanes blocked, and a full closure. The type has not moved since 4.36 and remains a crash with injuries and a roadblock, so the scene is still being worked even though the road is passable.

The practical effect is that there is a way through again, in two lanes rather than none. The queue that built behind the closure will take a while to drain, and one lane is still down.

The board was genuinely populated on both checks behind this item, carrying 100 incident rows statewide across 25 counties, so neither is a failed read reporting a false all clear.

Two of the three northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples have reopened, ending a full closure that stood for about half an hour, with the left lane still blocked and the crash that caused it still being worked

The crash that closed northbound Interstate 75 at Naples this afternoon has been retyped by the state as a fatality, the sixth description it has given one call, with the left lane still blocked more than three and a half hours after the first unit was sent

Every northbound lane of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples is now closed, a third escalation of a call the state first published as a disabled vehicle, with the full shutdown recorded between 4.49 and 4.59 and still standing at 5.05

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