The two right lanes are open again on northbound Interstate 75 at mile marker 144 in North Fort Myers, and the state's own note on the crash it logged there at 9.16 now reads that the roadway is clear

The Florida Highway Patrol now records the roadway as clear on northbound Interstate 75 at mile marker 144 in North Fort Myers, on the vehicle crash it logged there at 9.16 this morning.

The call is still on the state's dispatch board. What has changed is the Patrol's own status note against it, which read that the two right lanes were blocked when this desk reported it at 9.40, and now reads, in the state's words, that the roadway is clear.

What moved and what did not

The three timestamps against the call are unchanged. The state received it at 9.16.50, recorded a unit dispatched at 9.31.28, and recorded a unit on scene at 9.36.34.

The remarks field is the only thing that has moved. That single field is the basis for this brief, and the wording is the state's rather than this desk's.

When the lanes reopened, and why no closer time is offered

The board does not stamp a clear status. It carries a received time, a dispatched time and an on scene time, and then it stops, so the moment the lanes opened is not on the public record.

What can be fixed is the window. The note still read two right lanes blocked when the board was read at 9.39 this morning. It read clear when the board was read again at 10.48.

So the lanes reopened between 9.39 and 10.48 a.m., and no closer time than that is claimed here.

A present row saying clear is stronger than an absent row

This desk said in the earlier item that if the row came off the board, that would be the state ending publication of the call rather than the state announcing the road had reopened.

That still holds, and it is worth repeating because the two look alike from the outside. A vanished row tells you nothing about the road. What happened here is the other case: the row is still published, and the state has rewritten its own status note to say the roadway is clear. That is an affirmative statement rather than an absence.

Nothing is known about cause or injuries

The board publishes no cause, no vehicle count, no injury count and no names. The Florida Highway Patrol has issued no release on this call and neither has the Lee County Sheriff's Office. Nobody has been accused of anything, and nothing here should be read as suggesting otherwise.

Two other Lee County calls on the same board

Neither belongs to this story, and both are recorded here only because they are on the same corridor at the same hour.

The state received a debris call at 10.45 on Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 125 in Fort Myers, with a note that the debris is in a middle lane. It received a brush fire call at 10.46 on Alico Road at the southbound exit 128 ramp, whose note reads that there is possible smoke in the area and asks drivers to use caution. Neither had a unit recorded as dispatched or on scene at the time of the last reading.