By now most people in Florida and across the country have seen the harrowing photos of the multi-vehicle accident on fog and smoke-shrouded I-75 south of Gainesville before dawn on January 29.

One of them depicts the skeleton of a dual-trailer that caught fire after a pickup and a car slammed into its rear during the chain reactions that blocked both directions of the busy interstate at Payne’s Praire.

Those trailers were hitched to a FedEx Ground truck driven by a Glen St. Mary husband and wife team.

Kenneth Laird, 52, and Cynthia Laird, 44, who live on SR 125 just north of the town limits, were unhurt.

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney won Florida’s Republican primary race January 31, but Newt Gingrich, a native of neighboring Georgia, won Baker County by 460 votes, according to unofficial results from Baker County Supervisor of Elections Nita Crawford and the Florida Division of Elections.

Thomas and Carol Curtis, an elderly couple from Macclenny, were among those who voted for Mr. Gingrich in the primary, albeit begrudgingly.

Mr. Curtis said he’s become disenchanted with the political campaigns in general and voted for Mr. Gingrich because he believed the former House speaker would fight to protect seniors.

“Every year it’s always about attacks and digging up dirt on this guy or that one. It’s not about what [Gingrich] has done in the past. It’s about what he’s going to do in the future,” said Mr. Curtis.

Mrs. Curtis was undecided between Mr. Romney and Mr. Gingrich until she was standing in the booth about to cast her ballot.

What swayed her toward the latter candidate? Before voting about 12:30 pm, she called the Romney campaign to ask one question: What is he going to do for seniors?

“They gave me a number to call the party headquarters,” she said. “That’s what did it for me.”