Fog/Smoke Responsible for Several Auto Accidents in Trenton
TRENTON – A wildfire between Trenton and Bell caused smoke conditions which led to several car accidents Friday, October 17. The smoke, coupled with fog, made it necessary to close area roads last weekend due to zero visibility.
One of the accidents involved David Turner, a Gilchrist County Sheriff, who had never had an accident in his 33 years with the Sheriff’s office. His record was shattered when he was rear-ended by another vehicle despite the fact that the roads had been closed. A woman apparently pulled onto the road from a side road and did not see Turner’s car. Turner will be eligible to retire from the Sheriff’s office in just 78 days.
Fire departments, emergency crews, and highway patrol personnel remained in the area to detour traffic and attend to those who were involved in the accidents. No names or details of those crashes have as yet been released. A man reported that he believed his wife’s car had broken down in the area, and police searched for her on Friday. The results of that search are unknown.
An official from the Florida Division of Forestry said that firefighters had been attempting to put out the blaze since Sunday, October 12. It is believed that the fire began in a bay as a result of lightning and spread over a 100-acre area south of County Road 232 and east of US 129. While the area can only be reached via logging trails, the smoke, combined with the fog that is common this time of year, quickly created poor visibility on the nearby roads.
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