The Florida Highway Patrol has a southbound roadblock open on Interstate 75 at Estero this morning, at mile marker 122, on an entry its dispatch board types as a hit and run crash, and the entry was still being updated at twenty to seven

Update, 7.06 a.m. This entry has cleared. On two readings of the dispatch board taken at 7.05 a.m. and 7.06 a.m. Eastern, the clearance column on this row carries a stamp of 6.55 a.m., where it was empty on all three readings taken for this brief. The breaking flag has been removed from this item accordingly. A separate crash was logged at 6.59 a.m. a mile north, at mile marker 123, and is covered in its own brief.

The Florida Highway Patrol has an open entry on its dispatch board for Interstate 75 southbound at Estero, at mile marker 122, with the remarks reading southbound roadblock.

The entry was logged at 6.30 a.m. On a reading taken at 6.36 a.m. it was still on the board, and its update column had moved a minute earlier, at 6.35 a.m., which is dispatch revising a live entry rather than a row aging in place. The column this desk reads as a clearance stamp was empty on that reading and on the two captures before it.

The board types the incident as a hit and run crash with roadblock. That is the classification dispatch assigned to the call. No person is named on the record, and what happened is a matter for the investigating agency to state.

What the board does not carry is most of what matters. There is no injury information, no count of vehicles, no description of them and no account of the crash. The remarks say southbound roadblock without breaking it down by lane, so how much of the southbound carriageway is affected is not something the record says. No agency has published a statement on this crash that this desk could locate.

Neither local newsroom could be read on this run. WINK News returned a rate limit error to every request, and the NBC-2 feed returned a not found error. Nothing here is corroborated against either, and this rests on the state dispatch record alone.

Two direct readings of the board were taken about forty seconds apart, at 6.35 a.m. and 6.36 a.m. Eastern. Both returned a populated grid, 26 statewide rows on the first and 25 on the second, and both returned this same single row for Lee and Collier counties and nothing else. That check matters because a parse that returns nothing can read like a quiet morning rather than a failure, so the row count was confirmed before the county filter was believed.

The time needs one note. The board prints its timestamps on a twelve hour clock with no marker for morning or evening, so a row reading six thirty could mean either. This one is the morning. This desk's own five minute watcher saw nothing new on the board at 6.29 a.m. and picked this row up at 6.34 a.m., which puts its appearance inside those five minutes. The rest of the board agrees: seventeen of the twenty five statewide entries carry an hour of six, the hour the readings were taken in.

A dispatch board is a live log rather than a road status. An entry can sit on it after the lanes reopen, and it can also be revised minute by minute, as this one was. What can be said is that on a third reading taken at 6.39 a.m., against a board of twenty six statewide entries, the entry had not cleared and its remarks still read southbound roadblock.

Mile marker 122 sits between the Corkscrew Road interchange to the north and the Bonita Beach Road interchange to the south. United States 41 runs parallel through Estero and Bonita Springs for anyone who needs to get around the stretch.