Traffic collision with disabled vehicle and damaged axle on I-40, Burke County NC

Traffic

Reported: 11/11/2025 12:56 PM

I-40, North Carolina

A traffic collision occurred on I-40 westbound near exit 103 involving a tractor-trailer carrying an unsecured load. The collision caused damage to the back right axle of a vehicle, rendering it disabled and unable to roll. Emergency units responded to the scene, which had heavy smoke in the area but no active fires.

Audio|Source: Burke County Public Safety

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Transcript:

00:00

convert cars 1080 i 40 westbound from 103 so a tractor trailer has an unsteered load unknown state (number withheld)

00:11

Fifty-sixth.

00:14

Okay.

00:16

Just like that female want.

00:20

Negative.

00:24

This isn't know me the address,

00:26

possibly off of bridal rain.

00:29

A lot of wooden lane.

00:37

Where's that at?

00:42

Still off of Carl Freeman.

00:51

Here one, beyond scene.

00:57

I've engine one on.

00:58

18 to engine one.

01:17

Engine 1, where do you want us to park out when we come up here? We're pulling through the front gate now.

01:27

Inger 1 on scene, and that's a correction.

01:30

There's going to be 55 engine 2 on scene.

01:32

Right now I have heavy smoke in the rush.

01:35

I do not see any structures on fire at the moment, but there is heavy smoke in the area.

01:45

Receive tanker one got you on the scene.

01:47

I'll switch that engine out the engine to engine too.

01:54

Okay. Okay. Okay. One fifty bird,

01:56

ten twenty-eight.

02:08

Okay. Okay.

02:09

Open to the medical one bird.

02:17

Okay available.

02:20

All O'Kill Univable. All O'Kill Unit Spirit available.

02:27

King Lincoln 8989 comes back to a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee to (name withheld) out of Taylorsville active in the 75.

02:37

Chancellor.

02:41

5-6-7-20-10-4

02:50

Meet the 537

02:56

fire department on the same requesting we step it up apparently one of the occupants is give him a hard time he's already

03:06

Evil?

03:12

Back right, axle damage, the wheel's kind of been and it won't roll.

03:17

Ever.

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