50 To 100 Vehicle Crash I-4 Lakeland Florida Polk County

5:00 AM Multiple Vehicle Accident on I-4 Between Lakeland Florida and Haines City Florida. At Least 20 Semi-Tractor Trailers up to 100 Total. At least 3 people killed so far and the count is expected to go higher. People are still trapped in their vehicles as of 10:00 am today. Smoke from a controlled burn along with heavy fog is the cause of the accident. The scene is over 14 miles long. A Polk County Deputy was struck while trying to help victims. He continued to help people in spite of his own injuries. He saw people screaming burning in their own vehicles and could not help them. Stated he could not see his hand in front of his face, the smoke and fog was so thick.

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[lisalee126]

@FlamDance thank you my uncle died in the crash

[moknowsky]

@rayfl502 ~ so you want a pice of me ? I will take that ass !

[moknowsky]

@dagra55 ~ Knuclkehead !!!

[moknowsky]

@rayfl502 ~ hey watch your mouth prick !!

[rayfl502]

@ChetoDaTruth Was the drivers fault you cunt!!!.

[rayfl502]

@dagra55 The forrestry department does not do unauthorized burns . The bottom line is that the drivers should have slowed down moron!.

[sandiegomitch]

it seems like the dry hot smoke would get rid of the fog.

[angeliclayerfan]

That crash cause so much traffic everywhere in Polk county.

[AirwarriorX2]

They should have some LED lights on the road ways so people don't crash often there.

[dagra55]

actually no body got anything on this accident. What happened was the forestry department was doing an un-authourized burn and the wind made visibility to nothing. The forestry department was responsible for this pile up and they got away with nothing...and them saying something about fog no I was 2 miles from the accident scene and there was no fog just an ass load of SMOKE from the un-authourized burn conducted by the damn forestry department.