A series of crashes involving 10 vehicles and Road Ranger snarled traffic along Interstate 4 at the "Fairbanks curve" on Thanksgiving morning.

Florida Highway Patrol said the first of five crashes happened at about 8:20 a.m. when a vehicle struck a guardrail on the westbound lanes of the interstate at Fairbanks Avenue, the site of an infamous curve known for the number of crashes that happen there.

Four subsequent crashes occurred after that one, troopers said.

In the fourth crash, a Road Ranger's truck had stopped, with its lights flashing and arrow board on, in a closed westbound lane of I-4. That's when a 2001 Toyota car lost control and struck an SUV in the left lane, sending both the car and SUV into the Road Ranger's truck, according to troopers.

The driver of the Toyota, 54-year-old Daniel O'Connor of Jacksonville, was ticketed for driving too fast for road conditions.

The driver of the SUV, Prudence John, 60, of Orlando, was one of six people in the series of crashes taken to hospitals, all with minor injuries, FHP said.