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Mar 13, 2007 6:00 pm US/Eastern

Multi-Car Turnpike Accident Kills Five People

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OSCEOLA (CBS4) ― A multi-vehicle crash in central Florida has claimed another life.

Florida Highway Patrol officials said heavy fog Tuesday morning caused a 13-vehicle wreck on Florida's Turnpike that has now killed five people, and included a fire truck and sheriff's cruiser headed to an earlier crash.

Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Jorge Delahoz said it was not yet clear how the car crash occurred. He said the earlier wreck was minor, and caused by smoke from nearby brushfires mixed with morning fog.

Delahoz said the second crash just after 8:30 a.m. occurred when a patch of fog quickly appeared on the road.

"According to witnesses, the fog rolled in between the two crashes," he said. "Before the smoke cleared from the second crash it had rolled out."

Officials shut down a 51-mile stretch of the turnpike to work the accident. Portions of that stretch were also closed Monday because of brushfire smoke.

The accident happened at mile marker 209 in southern Osceola County.



(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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