The hit and run crash the Florida Highway Patrol had open on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 66 in Collier County has come off the state dispatch board, and the patrol filled in neither an arrival nor a clearance time and never said whether anything on the road had been blocked

The hit and run crash the Florida Highway Patrol had open on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 66 in Collier County has come off the state dispatch board.

The board logged it at 7.14 p.m. On three readings between 7.20 and 7.22 p.m. the record was open, with the arrival and clearance timestamp columns both empty and the remarks field reading UNKNOWN ROADBLOCK. On three further readings at 9.06 p.m. the row is not on the board at all, and those two columns were never filled in before it went.

That is the state ending publication of the record. It is not a clearance time, because the patrol never published one, and it is not a statement that any lane was ever blocked, because the patrol never published that either. The board says less about this crash now than it did two hours ago, and what it does say is that nothing is posted at mile marker 66 tonight.

Mile marker 66 is on the Alligator Alley stretch. Two Collier rows on the same board label the exit 101 interchange as Collier Boulevard and Alligator Alley, and mile markers on Interstate 75 rise going north, so a point at 66 sits well east of the Naples interchanges, out on the Everglades run where there is no exit and no parallel road to divert onto. The board gave the location as I-75 NB [MM66] x[MM66] [IMMOKALEE], with coordinates of 26.1682 north and 81.1239 west.

The second crash from the same few minutes has been resolved on the record rather than dropped. The vehicle crash with injuries on Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 53 near Ochopee, logged at 7.17 p.m. with an arrival at 7.19 p.m. and the remarks NO ROADBLOCK, now carries a clearance stamp of 7.54 p.m. and is still on the board. Two crashes on the Alley within three minutes of each other was worth stating at the time. No cause is known for either and none is suggested here.

The construction closures are the ones still standing. Both Collier Boulevard ramp closures at exit 101 remain open on the board at 9.06 p.m., more than an hour and a half after they were logged: two right turn lanes on the southbound exit ramp from 7.16 p.m., one left turn lane on the northbound exit ramp from 7.18 p.m. A newer Lee County entry, logged at 8.57 p.m. and open, has construction in two right lanes of Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 130 in Fort Myers. Those are ramp turn lanes and mainline construction lanes rather than incident closures, but they are what is actually posted on the interstate tonight.

Nothing in this item comes from anywhere but the state board. No outlet carried the mile marker 66 crash and the patrol has issued no statement. Nobody has been named, no vehicle has been described, and a hit and run classification on a dispatch record is a description of an incident rather than a finding against any person.