At least three people are dead after multiple early morning crashes involving more than a dozen vehicles on Interstate 95 near Edgewater. Officials confirm five separate crashes happened at the same time overnight in Volusia County during a blanket of dense fog.According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was one crash southbound involving six vehicles, and four separate crashes northbound involving 11 vehicles. The crashes included semitrucks.”We came on down the road, everything was white. We couldn’t see nothing,” truck driver John Johnson said. He was driving northbound when fog appeared.Johnson said he pulled over and put his hazard lights on.FHP says that there were three fatalities at the scene of the crashes. Two people died on the southbound side of I-95, and one person was killed on the northbound side. Multiple people, including children, were transported to area hospitals. One child was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital in stable condition. First Warning Weather meteorologist Kellianne Klass reports there was a ‘super fog’ weather event at the time of the crash.RELATED: What is super fog? Florida Highway Patrol added there was ‘zero visibility’. The main contributing factor to the crashes was likely the dense fog and smoke that may have come from a prescribed burn in the area overnight, troopers say.”We do know that that’s a causation of the crash this morning but we also have to look at driver responsibility and driver error,” FHP’s Lt. Kim Montes said.Because FHP did not have advanced notice of the prescribed burn, troopers were not in the area monitoring the situation at the time of the crashes. RELATED: The latest traffic updates in your area
At least three people are dead after multiple early morning crashes involving more than a dozen vehicles on Interstate 95 near Edgewater.
Officials confirm five separate crashes happened at the same time overnight in Volusia County during a blanket of dense fog.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was one crash southbound involving six vehicles, and four separate crashes northbound involving 11 vehicles. The crashes included semitrucks.
“We came on down the road, everything was white. We couldn’t see nothing,” truck driver John Johnson said. He was driving northbound when fog appeared.
Johnson said he pulled over and put his hazard lights on.
FHP says that there were three fatalities at the scene of the crashes. Two people died on the southbound side of I-95, and one person was killed on the northbound side. Multiple people, including children, were transported to area hospitals. One child was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital in stable condition.
First Warning Weather meteorologist Kellianne Klass reports there was a ‘super fog’ weather event at the time of the crash.
RELATED: What is super fog?
Florida Highway Patrol added there was ‘zero visibility’. The main contributing factor to the crashes was likely the dense fog and smoke that may have come from a prescribed burn in the area overnight, troopers say.
“We do know that that’s a causation of the crash this morning but we also have to look at driver responsibility and driver error,” FHP’s Lt. Kim Montes said.
Because FHP did not have advanced notice of the prescribed burn, troopers were not in the area monitoring the situation at the time of the crashes.
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