Search on I-40 near Palestine finds no vehicle off bridge, Palestine AR
Officers conducted an extensive search near the Lane Gill bridge on I-40 after a caller reported a vehicle off the bridge, which ended with no vehicle or hazard found.
Audio|Source: East Central Arkansas Public Safety
04:30
Transcript:
00:00
All right, I'm over here in the grass now in the media.
00:03
Let me step over down this way and see if I can see them under the bridge.
00:07
I can get a better look here.
00:15
Anything yet?
00:32
10 County, show me back 10-8[2].
00:49
See ya! How far do y'all? How far do y'all down in turn around when you came back?
00:56
Me and our Cooper were turned around for 2.27.
01:00
And then I'm slow rolling traffic now for y'all, right there we are at.
01:07
Yeah, but we're not seeing anything up here.
01:12
Yeah, we're looking between the bridges and we don't see nothing.
01:20
To the ground up right there if they went off.
01:26
There's a lot of rocks right here.
01:29
If they were westbound, they were tore the car all the pieces.
01:35
Thirteen County.
01:39
Thirteen, go ahead.
01:41
Contact that caller, they called in if you can and ask them if they were under the overpass or were they right there on the bridge, it's actually on 40.
01:54
13 odd did that.
01:56
She told me it was the Lane Gill, she described the L'Anguille River bridge, that they were under, kind of between the two bridges,
02:04
like they're going down in the water.
02:08
Oh, okay.
02:12
We don't see nothing and there's no water down here.
02:20
The bridge she described because she said she was a mile to a mile and a half before Palestine, before the 233 exit,
02:30
and it was the two double bridge right there.
02:41
Okay, I don't know what they could have been looking at.
02:48
There's a couple of deputies sitting on the Interstate Bridge back there.
02:52
If you want to notify them, see if they got anything, I see an ambulance going that way.
03:01
The county dispatch DMS just in case.
03:05
The county's still looking, and they're going to look around the water.
03:10
Yeah, 10-4[1].
03:11
As long as they don't have any holes laid out over there, I'd say it was good.
03:18
10- and 4. 2.410 is going to make sure they ain't got no hoses laid out.
03:27
Second.
03:43
10 14, 1146.
03:49
You can add to you, we've checked the median to the 229 to the 239 and we looked underneath the Creek Bridge just passed the 233, 2233 and the rest of the area.
04:12
Careful, climbing them loose.
04:18
Scription, this is the location.
04:25
Really white picked up would be the last one.
04:30
Simple.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmative; message received and understood.
[2]
10-8: In service
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Location mentioned:
Palestine, AR 72372
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