A tour bus on fire shut down the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys for three hours
A tour bus caught fire on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys Tuesday morning, shutting down traffic in both directions along the only highway that goes through the 100-plus-mile island chain for almost three hours.
The fire happened at mile marker 63.5 of the Overseas Highway on Conch Key, according to an 11:30 a.m. alert issued by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Adam Linhardt, sheriff’s office spokesman, said there doesn’t appear to be any serious injuries.
The sheriff’s office released a photo showing firefighters putting out a fire from a smoking dark blue bus.
Traffic was reopened around 2 p.m., but the sheriff’s office said delays would continue as congestion cleared.
Compounding traffic delays was a car crash with injuries that happened about a half mile south on the highway in which authorities closed the road again in both directions for almost an hour. Information on that accident was not immediately available, according to the sheriff’s office.
This story was updated to report the bus caught fire on Conch Key, not within the city of Layton as previously reported.
This story was originally published February 28, 2023 at 11:53 AM.
