A crash has the right lane of Interstate 75 southbound blocked at mile marker 100 in Collier County, and the state dispatch board still described the lane as held for emergency vehicles at 5.09 this afternoon

The right lane of Interstate 75 southbound is blocked by a crash at mile marker 100 in Collier County, under a Naples address, and a trooper reached the scene at 4.56 this afternoon. On readings taken at 5.07 and 5.09 the state dispatch board still described the lane as blocked for emergency vehicles.

The board carries the call as a vehicle crash, received at 4.52, dispatched at 4.53 and with a trooper on scene at 4.56. The remarks read RIGHT LANE IS BLOCKED FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES.

One field has changed since the call first appeared, and it is a change in what the board says rather than a change at the scene. When this desk's watcher first captured the row at 4.54 this afternoon, the column the board uses to stamp a trooper reaching the scene was empty and the remarks read only UNKNOWN ROADBLOCK. Both are now filled in. Every other field is unchanged, including both earlier timestamps and both coordinates, which is what fixes this as the same call rather than a second incident at the same mile marker. A trooper being on scene and a remark becoming more specific should not be read as the road coming back.

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 4.49 p.m. Eastern carried nothing new and the reading at 4.54 p.m. was the first to see this row, which places its appearance nought to two minutes after the 4.52 receipt and settles the call as an afternoon one.

The coordinates published against the entry are latitude 26.15516, longitude minus 81.66734, which places it on Interstate 75 in Collier County, south east of the Golden Gate Parkway interchange.

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 crash logged at 1.38 this afternoon still has the merging lane blocked where Golden Gate Parkway eastbound feeds onto Interstate 75 northbound at exit 105, and that entry was open and unchanged on both readings taken for this item. Measured on the coordinates the board itself publishes, the two sit about five miles apart, which matches the five mile markers between them. They affect opposite directions of travel, and neither one caused the other.

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 no injury classification, so nothing in this item should be read as saying whether anyone was hurt.

This mile marker is on the board because the Highway Patrol was dispatched to it. 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 crash entries in Collier or Lee county this afternoon, two of them out of a hundred and twenty open statewide across twenty nine counties. The National Weather Service has one alert covering this county, a heat advisory running to 7 p.m. Eastern that was issued overnight, and a second advisory on the same expiry covers Lee. Neither is new, and they bear on this only for anyone who ends up standing outside a vehicle at the scene.