Semi truck with livestock trailer facing wrong way on highway, Austin MN


A semi truck pulling a livestock trailer was found facing the wrong direction on I-90 near 6th Street NE in Austin. The truck was pulled off to the side in a construction zone and was not posing an active hazard when authorities arrived.
Audio|Source: Austin Law Enforcement
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Transcript:
00:00
It'll be I-90 and 6th Street, Northeast.
00:03
We're taking two reports now of the semi-basin eastbound.
00:07
or excuse me, semi-eastbound facing west on the interstate with a livestock trailer. I'm not sure if he's going the wrong direction on the interstate.
00:17
But we do have a, apparently a semi in that area, if you could send a trooper there.
00:22
Just to confirm you, so semi-facing,
00:25
he's found in the westbound?
00:28
Yeah, control is clear, no report.
00:30
We advise found their call back if any more issues come up.
00:33
Okay.
00:35
That's what it sounded like, it could be in the single-lane traffic, in the construction there.
00:40
It sounds like it is pulled off the side of the road.
00:44
Can you put one all three on that as well?
00:46
21st shoot on 90.
00:48
Okay, I got a trooper right in the area.
00:52
Copy, thank you.
00:54
One on three, I'm sorry, I was on a different channel.
00:58
You put me on it as well.
01:00
Get down 990 for 21st Street.
01:04
Copy and there's a trooper in the area also. I just search only on 30 cards check for assaults and I facing the wrong way. The East Bell 99E at the 6th Street in the construction zone. Yep, he's sitting at 21st Street.
01:22
Tommy.
01:23
Bye.
01:29
In that 6th Street, they got themselves figured out, but I'll keep going until I'm out of construction just to see.
01:37
Over.
01:38
Yeah,
01:42
there's nothing.
01:43
You can let State Patrol that as well,
01:45
but they haven't already checked. But my guess is they just ran over the middle barrier things and straightened themselves out.
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