page_title: Interstate 10 in Florida
section_title: Rest area security concerns
hierarchical_section_title: Interstate 10 in Florida / History / Rest area security concerns
caption_attribution_description: English: Interstate 10 moving west through Tallahassee Florida.
context_page_description: Interstate 10 runs for 362 miles in Florida as the easternmost section of an east-west Interstate Highway in the southern United States. It is also the eastern end of a highway known as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway, one of three coast-to-coast Interstates, along with I-80 and I-90. The highway runs east from the Alabama border, traveling through the Panhandle of Florida, serving the major cities of Pensacola, Tallahassee, Lake City, ending at Jacksonville, and carries the hidden Florida Department of Transportation designation of State Road 8.
context_section_description: In 1993, a British tourist was killed at the Jefferson County rest area in a botched burglary by teens. As a result, Florida rest stops were either patrolled or closed for at least two years when lawmakers approved cut-backs. A number of rest areas are currently regularly patrolled at night by armed security, often private, due to a resurgence in rest area-related violent crime.
caption: I-10 west approaching the interchange for US 319/SR 61 in Tallahassee
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