Serious crash causes wrong-way driving and highway closure


A serious crash on a highway caused vehicles to drive the wrong way. Police and fire units blocked all entrances, closing the highway and forcing traffic to detour through Kentucky.
Audio|Source: Cincinnati Police
02:31
Transcript:
4230, you can have fire come to 60, 24, Glenn Parker. Crash, can they advise if they're still receiving traffic? Is he still making it down to you? 30, not at the moment that fire's blocking those lines. If we're walking away, that will be here. We need every entrance to we have blocked off. There's people driving wrong way on the highway. Copy people driving wrong way on the highway. I don't need to be closed off. Yeah, 1340. I need people off at, probably, uh, flasker it and didn't shut down. 1340, I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. You need units where to shut it down? Probably other towers are Western, and I need the whole highway shut down. I thought units going the wrong way. Probably we need the whole highway shutdown at Western or other than Charles. Units to get a truck down. Probably I'll get some District 3. 1310, send me to run, and where do you need me to block off[1] the lake? Anybody that's still on 75, South is going to have to be forced through Kentucky. to shut down from, if you can get, I need a six tree videoc shutdown, eastbound, and then I need all southbound traffic from 75 shut down. Copy all eastbound traffic from 75? Okay, copy. I'll try to shut it down. Do you want me shut down before Weston? You can force them off, Esther Charles. I just need, if I can get... A ramp, I don't know if it's really a ramp, but that connects to Fort Washington Way from 75 South. I need that chart down. Oh, okay, kind of relocate. I'm coming down south on. I start closing it off at Is Charles. 6 pre-infest and send us to the interstate and if we can have a location they've won us that we'll have that way soon
Police codes explained
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block off: Road closure or traffic diversion
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Fort Washington Way, Cincinnati, OH
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