Multiple vehicle crash blocks I-68 westbound with debris, Garrett County MD
TrafficMultiple vehicles collided on I-68 westbound near the 20-mile marker. The crash scattered large metal sheets and debris across the road, blocking traffic and causing the interstate to shut down for emergency response.
Audio|Source: Garrett County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Sam, we should be on the westbound side, around the 19th.
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911 had calls and so has Allegheny.
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Sounds like it's going to be a sheet of metal across north weather.
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Okay, 4.
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C.O.C. 9.703.
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I feel pretty great.
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7.03,
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Fireboard has Northdown at Hansonville closed on northbound traffic.
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And not at the scene of 9704's accident, at the scene of 9704's accident, all the names are open.
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At the scene of the accident that was in the crossover.
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Fire belief has all northbound clothes.
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Would you be able to assist with them? Um,
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there's 907.4, okay, with traffic coming by them at the active team.
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Stand by, I'm taking a phone phone phone.
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98704 TOC.
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98704, God.
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I'm out with it. It's going to be stretched to apply a couple hundred yards.
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I have four.
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Alert fire department to come out here. Okay.
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I'm just coming over the hill now. I'll be there a couple of minutes.
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Alright, I'll get ready to call you. This, Mark wants to go and he, uh,
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he's all over the road up here. He's trying to give the whole vehicles.
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He's on the shoulder and he comes back out in the lane and wants out.
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And they keep that shut down.
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They can get both of these bills, I appreciate it, because I'm not feeling good about this. T.O.C. 10.
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7-04 T.C.
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Tommy, can I have the fire department shut down at Chestnut Ridge.
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Go ahead.
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Go ahead.
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They can come up in lane two.
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I got lane one shut down.
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Track.
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Hi, I've been on your traffic, I was on the line with EOZ.
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Forty-seven. Yes.
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How are you five, eastbound or westbound?
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I need the interstate shutdown at Chestnut Ridge Road.
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Eastbound, correction, westbound right around the 20.
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Okay, we're going to get them dispatch. There's also somebody that has finished to their vehicle in front of the semi. They want to see one of you.
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They're going to be waiting a while.
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The charge's off with us at this point, the track is just too heavy. We can't get anybody's thought.
02:56
Okay, they're getting fire department dispatched.
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961, TRC, just the Robinocene.
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Sean shutdowns right here.
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T.R.C. Start?
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Okay, I need a time.
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Good.
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I'm coming up out of New Germany.
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You said you need traffic shutdown.
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What's going on in the interstate from Chestnut?
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I need the whole entire interstate shutdown left now.
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That's work.
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Company 60, I-668.
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Point marker westbound for traffic control.
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Sorry, you just go out of the road, you can't get it.
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Company 60, I-68, 20-mile marker westbound for traffic control for debris and the roadway at 1956.
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All right me,
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Henry, I'm all putting in heavy equipment out here. We can't even lift this stuff.
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Okay.
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We'll see if you can get okay with a great all when we're spending up to there.
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Uh, we now have a major collision.
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I think the Trial controller missed everybody,
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but we do have a 10-50[1] amp before.
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Canvore.
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Okay, sir.
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That's true.
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561 TOC. Not always too heavy to move, we're going to need a team out here.
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Company 60, company 60 for one, medic one,
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upgrading the calls in on NECC, clearly the 20 mark of a pound.
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205. I'll get the shot part for you. Okay.
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Again, upgrading the call to NBC.
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Medical and want to do it's a call.
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The area of Tesson Ridge Road.
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New 68. Reports of the lady pedestrian walking in the roadway.
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The same lady we got with earlier down 40 with the stroller.
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Walthwell calls one around the road.
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Okay.
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Do you guys have left-down shut down right now?
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Nothing shut down, but I needed to shut down.
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Part of Department's been dispatched. Sample. Okay.
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I'm already Tuesdays like there as well.
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I'm looking at.
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Mark are you at?
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Plan mark there west down.
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I'm probably at the 20.
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I need everything stuck in to chest my bridge coming west.
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Semble.
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T.O.S.M.E.6 if you on top, the notifies are en route.
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That's work. I'll be signed it.
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The sheets are metal or steady.
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We can't get it out of the roadway.
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I'm going to stay on the phone call for trying to slowly drive. We're going to follow the highway.
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10-50: Traffic accident
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