I-75 signage on Payne’s Prairie still months away
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Alexys Martinez on August 30th, 2012 | Last updated: December 7, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Many Gator football fans will be passing through Paynes Prairie this weekend while making their way to Gainesville for the first game of the season. That section of I-75 is the same area where several people lost their lives in a series of crashes in late January because of dense smoke from a nearby wildfire. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Alexys Martinez reports on what’s being done to prevent a repeat of this tragedy.
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