Georgia · Camden County · Traffic & Accidents
I-95 Southbound Closed at Harrietts Bluff Road in Camden County, GA: Vehicle Fire Shuts All Lanes at the 7-Mile Marker
All southbound lanes of Interstate 95 are closed at Harrietts Bluff Road (CR 141) in Camden County, Georgia, after a vehicle fire that began at 4:39 p.m. ET Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, the Georgia Department of Transportation’s 511 Georgia feed says. GDOT has pushed its estimated reopening back from 8:09 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. WJXT News4JAX puts the closure at the 7-mile marker and reports two northbound lanes remain open.
Key facts
- What happened
- GDOT’s wording: “Vehicle on fire on I-95 Southbound at Harrietts Bluff Road (CR 141). All lanes closed.” Severity: major
- Where
- I-95 southbound at Harrietts Bluff Road (CR 141), Camden County, Georgia — the 7-mile marker, per News4JAX
- When it began
- 4:39 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026
- Southbound
- All lanes closed. Both sources agree
- Northbound
- Not closed. A separate GDOT record logs a smoke hazard, left lane blocked; News4JAX says two lanes remain open
- Estimated reopening
- 11:30 p.m. ET — a GDOT estimate, not a guarantee. It was 8:09 p.m. at the 5:33 p.m. reading
- Injuries
- Not reported either way by GDOT or News4JAX
- Not described
- The type of vehicle, the cause, whether the fire is out, and any responding agency beyond GDOT
What happened on I-95 southbound at Harrietts Bluff Road in Camden County?
The Georgia Department of Transportation’s 511 Georgia feed opened an incident-closure record, event 6003593, at 4:39 p.m. ET Wednesday. Its wording is the state’s own and it is short: “Vehicle on fire on I-95 Southbound at Harrietts Bluff Road (CR 141). All lanes closed.” The county is Camden, the direction is southbound, and GDOT classes the severity “major.”
The WJXT News4JAX report, published at 5:19 p.m. ET, adds what the feed does not carry — the mile marker. In the station’s words: “All southbound lanes on I-95 in Camden County are currently closed at the 7-mile marker following a vehicle fire just after Harrietts Bluff Road.” It also reported that “a nearby traffic camera showed heavy smoke,” that “significant delays are expected,” and that “drivers are urged to avoid the area and seek an alternate route if possible” — the station’s line, not a route named here.
When does GDOT estimate I-95 southbound will reopen in Camden County?
This is the part that moved. At a 5:33 p.m. ET reading of the 511 Georgia feed, GDOT’s estimated reopening was 8:09 p.m. ET. By a 6:02 p.m. reading, GDOT had pushed it to 11:30 p.m. ET — more than three hours later than the department had projected half an hour earlier. GDOT last updated the record at 6:05 p.m.
That figure is a GDOT estimate, not a guarantee; the department revises it as conditions change, which is what happened here inside a single half hour. At the last reading, 6:05 p.m. ET, all southbound lanes were still closed.
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Is I-95 northbound closed at Harrietts Bluff Road?
No — the northbound side is not closed. GDOT’s companion record, event 6003948, logs a smoke hazard at the same interchange with the left lane blocked, beginning at 4:57 p.m. ET, 18 minutes after the southbound closure, with an estimated end of 6:57 p.m.
News4JAX gives the northbound picture in lane counts: “Two northbound lanes remain open, though one lane has been closed due to the incident.” That count is the station’s alone.
What is not known yet?
- Whether anyone was hurt. Neither GDOT nor News4JAX reports injury information, and neither states that no one was hurt.
- What kind of vehicle burned, and what caused the fire. Both sources say only “a vehicle,” and neither gives a cause or a count of vehicles.
- Whether the fire is out, and which agencies are on scene. GDOT’s record was still open at the 6:05 p.m. reading and still worded as a vehicle on fire; no fire, law enforcement or emergency medical agency is named by either source.
- How long the backup is, and whether 11:30 p.m. will hold. News4JAX gives no distance or travel time, and the GDOT estimate already moved once by more than three hours inside half an hour.
Frequently asked questions
Why is I-95 southbound closed in Camden County, GA?
A vehicle fire. The Georgia Department of Transportation’s 511 Georgia feed logged the closure at 4:39 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026: “Vehicle on fire on I-95 Southbound at Harrietts Bluff Road (CR 141). All lanes closed.” WJXT News4JAX reported the same closure at 5:19 p.m. ET, at the 7-mile marker just after Harrietts Bluff Road.
Where exactly is the I-95 closure in Camden County?
On the southbound side of Interstate 95 at Harrietts Bluff Road, which GDOT also lists as CR 141, in Camden County, Georgia. News4JAX puts it at the 7-mile marker; that detail is the station’s, while GDOT’s record gives the interchange only.
When will I-95 southbound reopen at Harrietts Bluff Road?
GDOT estimates 11:30 p.m. ET, and it is an estimate rather than a guarantee. It moved during the afternoon: at a 5:33 p.m. ET reading of the 511 Georgia feed it was 8:09 p.m., and by a 6:02 p.m. reading GDOT had pushed it to 11:30 p.m. The record was last updated at 6:05 p.m. ET.
Is I-95 northbound closed at Harrietts Bluff Road in Camden County?
No. GDOT has a separate record, event 6003948, for a smoke hazard on I-95 northbound at Harrietts Bluff Road with the left lane blocked, beginning 4:57 p.m. ET with an estimated end of 6:57 p.m. News4JAX reported that two of the northbound lanes are still open, with one northbound lane shut.
Was anyone hurt in the I-95 vehicle fire in Camden County?
That has not been reported. The 511 Georgia feed lists no injury information for this event, and News4JAX does not address injuries. Neither source says anyone was hurt and neither says no one was, so this report records only that no injury has been reported.
What kind of vehicle caught fire, and which agency is handling it?
Neither source says what kind of vehicle burned, how many were involved or what caused the fire; both describe only a vehicle. The Georgia Department of Transportation is the agency publishing the road’s status. No fire department, sheriff’s office, state law enforcement agency or emergency medical service is named by either source, so none is named here.
More Camden County reports are on our Camden County page. Two other Georgia road-fire reports from this week: I-675 lanes reopened after an SUV fire near Anvil Block Road in Clayton County and a grass fire in the I-16 West median near State Route 67 in Bulloch County, both Aug. 18.
Sources
- Georgia Department of Transportation, 511 Georgia live traffic feed — read directly at 5:33 p.m., 6:02 p.m. and 6:05 p.m. ET on Aug. 19, 2026. The state’s own record of the road. Source for event 6003593 on the Incident Closures layer and its wording, the Camden County location, the “major” severity, the 4:39 p.m. start, the estimated reopening moving from 8:09 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. between the 5:33 p.m. and 6:02 p.m. readings, the 6:05 p.m. last update, and the companion record 6003948 on the Incidents layer with its 4:57 p.m. start, 6:57 p.m. estimated end and 5:51 p.m. last update. It lists no injury information.
- WJXT News4JAX — “Traffic Alert: All Southbound lanes of I-95 shut down in Camden County near Harrietts Bluff Road after vehicle fire,” staff, published 5:19 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2026, dateline CAMDEN COUNTY, Ga. Graham Media Group, independent of Cox, Gray, Tegna and Sinclair. Sole source for the 7-mile marker, the traffic-camera view of heavy smoke, the count of two northbound lanes open with one closed, “significant delays are expected,” and the line urging drivers to avoid the area and seek an alternate route if possible.
- On independence: this is a two-source story, and one of the two is the state DOT’s own feed. GDOT is the primary record of the closure; News4JAX is the one newsroom that has reported it, and its photo is credited to GDOT, so the two are not fully independent on the closure itself. News4JAX does independently add the mile marker, the camera view and the northbound lane count.
- Not read directly: no fire or law-enforcement agency statement, no incident report, and no word on injuries from anyone.
Compiled by The Local Alert Georgia Staff from the two sources linked above, as of 6:05 p.m. ET. The Georgia Department of Transportation is the agency speaking to the status of this road, and its reopening time is a GDOT estimate that can move. The Local Alert is not a transportation agency and not an emergency agency; for the current status of I-95 in Camden County, contact the Georgia Department of Transportation. Corrections and removal requests: see our corrections policy.
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