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BY LARRY KAHN
A trailered skiff that wasn't tied down to its trailer while being towed on U.S. 1 caused Sunday's three-car crash that shut the Long Key Bridge for hours, says the Florida Highway Patrol.
Sgt. Pedro Reinoso says Keith Daniels, 34 of Marathon was driving a 2001 Chevrolet southbound in the middle of the two-mile bridge at mile marker 65 pulling a trailer with the 16-foot Carolina skiff behind it. Behind him driving a 1994 Ford Ranger was Yaganys Moran, 40, of Lehigh Acres west of Fort Myers.
Reinoso said in an e-mail that "the boat came off the trailer and went airborne/sideways" into the northbound lane, where Fenerando Avila, 53, of Miami was driving a 2014 GMC Denali. It struck the Denali and "the boat slid into the windshield." Then debris from the skiff hit the roof of Moran's Ranger.
"It was not tied down at all," Reinoso wrote Monday morning.
The bridge, running from mile marker 64 to 66, was closed to traffic from around 3:25 to 5:30 p.m., with one lane eventually opening during that time to allow alternating traffic to flow while the crash was investigated and cleaned up. Avila and a passenger in his Denali received minor injuries. No alcohol was involved.
BY LARRY KAHN
A trailered skiff that wasn't tied down to its trailer while being towed on U.S. 1 caused Sunday's three-car crash that shut the Long Key Bridge for hours, says the Florida Highway Patrol.
Sgt. Pedro Reinoso says Keith Daniels, 34 of Marathon was driving a 2001 Chevrolet southbound in the middle of the two-mile bridge at mile marker 65 pulling a trailer with the 16-foot Carolina skiff behind it. Behind him driving a 1994 Ford Ranger was Yaganys Moran, 40, of Lehigh Acres west of Fort Myers.
Reinoso said in an e-mail that "the boat came off the trailer and went airborne/sideways" into the northbound lane, where Fenerando Avila, 53, of Miami was driving a 2014 GMC Denali. It struck the Denali and "the boat slid into the windshield." Then debris from the skiff hit the roof of Moran's Ranger.
"It was not tied down at all," Reinoso wrote Monday morning.
The bridge, running from mile marker 64 to 66, was closed to traffic from around 3:25 to 5:30 p.m., with one lane eventually opening during that time to allow alternating traffic to flow while the crash was investigated and cleaned up. Avila and a passenger in his Denali received minor injuries. No alcohol was involved.
