Disabled vehicle causes temporary closure on interstate 81, Franklin County PA

Traffic

Reported: 11/14/2025 03:09 PM

I-81, Pennsylvania

Emergency units responded to a disabled or crashed vehicle on Interstate 81 near mile marker 18 in Pennsylvania. The incident caused a temporary road closure and obstruction. The vehicle was removed, and the roadway has since reopened.

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Transcript:

00:00

Getting on the interstate at 17.

00:07

I'll be that.

00:09

I want you to get in between myself and the traffic unit then.

00:16

Probably that.

00:22

Franklin,

00:24

579, out of Chambersburg.

00:31

Forty-nine, there's room, just keep on coming up the shoulder, past the traffic unit, then follow command's orders there.

00:40

Copy that.

00:42

41, we're actually going to shift forward.

00:46

Okay.

00:52

We'll basically just do like a rolling stop.

00:55

Well, here comes a tow truck now, so...

00:59

Forty-fourty-nine zone.

01:04

I think a G-46 off five.

01:07

G-46.

01:12

Go ahead and send him up the shoulder.

01:16

On his wagon.

01:19

Interstate 81, just south of the mile mark for 18.

01:24

Big off the road,

01:25

we're leaving the scene with PSP[1],

01:27

five police, and 2314.

01:31

Copy G46, Squad 41.

01:35

Return to fire DEMS dispatch at 1813.

01:42

For you, Frank.

01:47

940 Bavall then

01:54

940 your last message

01:58

Be available.

02:02

940 return fire police may in 1814 franklin 255 is four minutes out have any other fire police marked up i have not heard any others

02:24

Finally, I was 3-7, Class 3 response, 11 Edwards Drive,

02:30

an 82-year-old female Conch third morning,

02:35

experiencing nausea, hypertensive, and a headache,

02:38

1850.

02:40

Yeah, that's right, copies.

02:42

Great time, Bob.

02:47

I'm Brian Carver, 18.

02:53

Traffic, 18.

03:00

8600 block away away west.

03:01

Vehicles been removed off the side of the roadway.

03:03

Roadway is reopened, all company 18, company 9 fireflies available, switch the back to fire please main.

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PSP: Pennsylvania State Police

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