Florida's Turnpike northbound has reopened at Glades Road in Boca Raton after a hazmat crash closed it Monday morning. State records no longer list the closure.

Florida’s Turnpike northbound has reopened at Glades Road in Boca Raton. A crash involving hazardous materials had closed it early Monday, just before Exit 75.

Updated 11 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9: FL511’s statewide closures list no longer carries either record for the crash, and the Highway Patrol’s live log no longer shows the call. The only Turnpike items FL511 lists near Boca Raton tonight are planned overnight lane closures. The Highway Patrol has still not released details of the crash.

The Florida Department of Transportation’s FL511 system lists the crash as starting at 6:10 a.m. At 1:23 p.m. it still showed all northbound lanes closed before the Glades Road exit.

A second FL511 record covers the stretch to the south. It started at 6:54 a.m. and lists:

  • all northbound lanes closed from Exit 71, the Sawgrass Expressway (State Road 869), to the Glades Road exit, about four miles
  • the ramp from the Sawgrass Expressway onto the northbound Turnpike closed
  • the northbound ramp to Exit 75, Glades Road (State Road 808), closed
  • a Road Ranger on scene, with drivers told to move over or slow down

FL511 also listed traffic congestion on Glades Road eastbound at the Turnpike from 12:11 p.m.

What the Highway Patrol’s log shows

The Florida Highway Patrol’s live incident log records the call as a vehicle crash with injuries and a roadblock. It lists the location as the northbound Turnpike at mile marker 75, just south of Glades Road.

The log shows the call came in at 6:07 a.m. and a unit was logged on scene at 6:49 a.m. When we checked at 2:03 p.m., its remarks read “two lanes now open.” FL511 had not caught up with that at the time: its last update, at 1:25 p.m., still showed every northbound lane closed.

The Highway Patrol has not posted a written statement on the crash. Its log does not say how many vehicles were involved, how many people were hurt or how badly, or what the hazardous material was. We have not reported those details because no agency has published them.

Southbound lanes are not listed as affected in either state record.

What it means for you

  • The northbound Turnpike, the Sawgrass Expressway ramp and the Glades Road exit are no longer listed as closed.
  • Overnight work still closes lanes. FL511 listed the two right southbound lanes blocked before mile marker 74 from 8:05 p.m. Monday for planned construction.
  • Check the FL511 map before you leave. It is the state’s own record of which lanes are open.
  • Planned lane closures on the Turnpike and other Boca Raton roads are on our road construction and closures page.

We will update this page if the Highway Patrol releases details of the crash.

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