A crash with injuries at Bell Tower Road and Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers shut three northbound lanes on Saturday, and the sheriff's office told motorists to find an alternate route

The Lee County Sheriff's Office issued a traffic advisory around midday on Saturday, July 25 for a crash at Bell Tower Road and Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers.

According to the advisory, there was a traffic crash with injuries at that intersection, three northbound lanes of Tamiami were shut down at the time of the posting, and motorists were asked to avoid the area and find an alternate route. The sheriff's office described the location as Bell Tower Road and N Tamiami Trail.

The agency did not say how many people were injured or how seriously, did not say how many vehicles were involved, and did not describe what caused the crash. It has not attributed fault to any driver.

Tamiami Trail is US 41, the primary north-south surface route through Fort Myers and the main alternative to Interstate 75 for local traffic. The Bell Tower intersection is one of the heavier retail junctions in Lee County, which is why the loss of three northbound lanes there on a Saturday afternoon registers as a real disruption. Drivers heading north through that area would ordinarily shift to Interstate 75 or work around the closure on Six Mile Cypress Parkway or Metro Parkway.

Current status is the part to be careful about. As of publication, roughly three hours after the advisory went out, the sheriff's office had not posted an all-clear or a reopening notice. That is not confirmation the lanes remain closed, and crashes of this kind on a surface road are commonly cleared within a few hours. Anyone traveling that stretch now should check live conditions rather than rely on the midday advisory.

This brief is sourced to the Lee County Sheriff's Office public traffic advisory, which is linked above as the primary document. There is no keyless public feed for Florida road closures, so no independent confirmation of the current lane status was available at publication, and this brief says so rather than implying the closure is either still active or cleared.