Vehicle accident with downed power line closes road, Lorain County OH
TrafficA vehicle accident occurred near a hospital involving a Toyota and a red Ford Explorer. No one was injured. The vehicles moved into a nearby parking lot. A live wire fell across Center Ridge Road, causing the westbound lane to close and power outages went out at traffic lights near Cleveland and White Oak. Emergency responders are managing traffic and waiting for the power company to address the downed wire.
Audio|Source: Lorain County Public Safety - North
05:43
Transcript:
00:00
Can you go Ridgeville and see if they can shut down Center Ridge in their city westbound it pulls across the road and the fire's in the middle
00:22
The world shouldn't be down, but...
00:32
44.
00:34
Back close.
00:37
If you did handle an MVA[1] for us, please, there's no injuries.
00:40
It happened in front of the hospital.
00:42
They've pulled into the parking lot next to it by the walkover.
00:47
It's going to be a Toyota and a Red Explorer.
00:51
Copy.
00:59
They mentioned that it was at the camp.
01:03
All right, that's where I'm having.
01:11
Do you need of?
01:15
We're going to have to park down here by me.
01:16
We can't get through because of the wire down, but we're going to have to get the other side turned around as well.
01:22
Got it.
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7.11.
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144.
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51.
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144-4 portable check.
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Loud and clear.
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Employee gate.
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Copy.
02:28
472, I made contact with a complaint that said there over in the camp area.
02:33
There should be tossers with him standing next to the vehicle.
02:37
They just pulled up.
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I'll be out.
02:42
Happy?
02:50
Employee Gate
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0453-7-7.
03:02
Has Ohio Edison been contacted?
03:10
Negative.
03:15
Correction.
03:16
It looks like fire already advised them.
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396.
03:27
Good.
03:30
Now be signal 13 at LCC.
03:35
Okay. Okay.
03:38
Okay.
03:39
Okay.
03:44
29-3-7-7-2-0.
03:47
Go ahead.
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Stand Queen 667513.
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If you could just attach him as a witness.
04:01
4400 is coming
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97-566
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We respond to 20 at the west end.
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EPDs reflecting we closed down, westbound traffic due to an accident memory.
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Okay, send 25.
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4172.
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417 this back.
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Vehicle is open, I'm clear.
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Copy.
05:01
Okay.
05:18
We'll need sugar details, but advise them to just stage in the parking lot, the wires are still live,
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break.
05:32
And just give communications a heads up that the lights at Cleveland and White Oak are off, obviously, with no power, but at some point they'll probably have to reset them.
Police codes explained
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[1]
MVA: Motor Vehicle Accident
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Location mentioned:
Center Ridge Rd, Ohio
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