Florida Pile-Up Crash Kills At Least 10

At least 10 people are killed and 20 injured as smoke and fog cause multiple crashes on a busy Florida road near Gainesville.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the pile-up, involving 12 cars and six or seven trucks, occurred shortly before 4am on Interstate 75 after smoke from a marsh fire combined with fog to reduce visibility on both the northbound and southbound lanes.

In one crash, two cars and a tractor trailer caught fire and melted asphalt on the road.

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• Gainesville
• marsh fire
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[godbluffvdgg]

People are driving worse and worse. I have been driving for 34 years and I can't believe what I see on the road. Nobody is paying attention.. They are on their phones or looking at the driver in front of them. We need to make the drivers license test MUCH harder. For My Class A CDL it took 200 hours of classroom and 100 hours of road. The driving test last 1.5 hours and you get off and on highways, go over and under bridges, park, straight line back etc... weed out the poor drivers.

[Loo0Lzz]

"Ohh... I can't see shit infront of me, but I'll still drive 75MPH..."

[tonymagona334]

@iamJDMandy i can tell what karma has in store for you. good luck driving through some "unsafe conditions" next time. you'll probably end up in the news as well.

[EXILEIS]

ololololtrololololol

[Chaplain15]

@iamJDMandy You weren't there, you don't know the circumstances and panic clouds logic many times. Grow up, have some empathy.

[Richierich1285]

@Kardaszpm yeah i would say i would do the same thing pull off too the right side of the road as far as i can or not enter the fog at all but no one knows what they will do till the time comes when a situation like that arrives.and if i was able to pull of befor i hit the fog i would warn others or some how stop traffic befor the fog

[Kardaszpm]

@Richierich1285 Yeah dude, there is really nothing you can due once you are in it. Not like you can just throw it in reverse on an interstate. What I picture I would do, and I hate fog with a passion (almost died in it once), I would have immediately pulled as far to the side as possible. In the grass by the fence. I have a two-year old, and, man, this was terrible. God bless

[iamJDMandy]

if you died in that, you deserve it.

only idiots try to drive in unsafe conditions. hope it was worth it, fucking bastards.

[lovelyaley]

it was from smoke...

[Richierich1285]

@michaelheiland123654 yeah but you must know that anytime theirs something like this that happends at corse they will blame it on speeding or at least someone will bc the government has got every one into thinking speed kills