multiple icy bridges on highway cause vehicle slides, Floyd County KY
TrafficMultiple bridges on the new Highway 460 near the Greasy Creek exit are icy and causing vehicles to slide. Drivers are warned to use caution due to slick road conditions. Several accidents have been reported on these bridges. Salt trucks have not been seen on some areas yet.
Audio|Source: East Kentucky Amateur Radio SkyWarn
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Transcript:
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Some of these new bridges up here on this new road,
00:04
look like a shining,
00:07
slick coat bottle, buddy, in the headlights.
00:09
They're as slick as they can be.
00:12
I'd say you would hear a lot of wrecks, little early right now, but when they all start getting out about 7.7.30,
00:20
I'd say you were hearing a lot of wrecks, but there was a bunch of them on that Sookies Creek Bridge last night.
00:30
State Police was working on one wreck and said there were several coming through them splung out.
00:36
But boys, I'll tell you,
00:39
I don't understand these people.
00:40
after driving and it's slick and 20-some degrees and snowing and stuff like that and act like it's in ninety-bye.
00:54
That for a little bit before I went to bed.
00:57
Buddy, that new bridge right there at the mouth of beaver, I wiggled all the way across it this morning.
01:04
I'd try to give it a little gas to go up, buddy, and it just start turning sideways.
01:11
Well, that is the state not out putting salt and stuff on it?
01:19
I'm almost a greasy creek and I ain't seen the first salt truck yet.
01:26
Well,
01:27
that beats anything I ever seen, but you'd think on that new road that they'd be on there?
01:34
Well, after three or four of them has a wreck and they start complaining about it, maybe they'll get up, get some salt in the truck, get started.
01:47
Or yesterday evening when I was coming home, they'd be out salting and putting it down for the night.
01:54
But I never seen the first one yesterday evening either.
02:03
It's a different place, I think.
02:05
By now, when I work, it's a different ball game, buddy.
02:15
Yeah, it's like that everywhere.
02:22
I probably had a half inch on the porch,
02:32
tops of the cars and stuff,
02:34
but they want a bit of it late on the road or the driveway.
02:38
Well, that's good.
02:40
Yeah, they was a pretty good snow coming down here.
02:44
About 5.36 o'clock, I guess,
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right before dark.
02:50
And then I figured during the night I heard my chimes are blowing last night.
02:56
Usually if that winds are blowing, it's just snowing a little bit out there, you know, especially this early in the morning.
03:04
I figured that's what it was, but I just covered up and went back to sleep.
03:13
Greasy Creek exit, son, they are froze solid.
03:24
We'll tell BT if he starts out of there to be awful careful of him.
03:30
If he won't have to draw seen, they're right before you get to the greasy exit coming from Elkhorn.
03:44
Good morning, BP.
03:49
Morning, buddy, I figured up there to leave a little early.
03:54
Yeah, well, of course, as slick as it could be out there on them bridges to watch them bridges.
04:03
It is. They had a wreck there last night.
04:09
That bridge right there around the pyramid, you know, where you get on the new 460.
04:20
I figured sure they'd be out there, but see what I get for figure.
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US-460, Kentucky
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