Semi-truck blocks median on Highway 43, snarling traffic, Washington County WI
A semi-truck, stranded in the median on Highway 43 in Washington County, Wisconsin, causes severe traffic delays as vehicles squeeze past a guardrail. Fire and EMS units respond promptly, with no injuries reported.
Audio|Source: Washington County Police, Fire and EMS
04:27
Transcript:
00:00
Just advising the semi- is in the median side, but traffic is barely able to get around with that guardrail on the right-hand side.
00:13
47 County, 106 off for a moment.
00:21
Carters out T.5543.
00:25
Okay.
00:28
F.E4 number just rings, no answer.
00:35
Newport fire map shows these vehicles in Wisconsin, so I am taking the crash show.
00:50
255, you can start 251 for the vehicles.
00:55
Never.
00:59
257-255. 255.
01:02
You go ahead.
01:07
It was up you with, no injuries.
01:11
25 St. James Church, 148, South 8th.
01:15
1017 said there's a post on neighbors helping neighbors that there was a man sitting in the doorway.
01:24
10-4[1].
01:30
13-748 you get?
01:34
I love and Connie VID.
01:38
Go on.
01:42
Hey, Glennbrook.
02:02
Two live in Conrad.
02:04
There's a vehicle perpendicular in the roadway.
02:08
Okay, ten-five.
02:17
Twenty-seven.
02:20
Three-three, it'll probably be Christopher Mahoney if you could run a twenty-nine on him, please.
02:27
Ten-four.
02:29
You want to ask.
02:32
Good.
02:36
21 is we did it for both EG8 2025.
02:42
Jaffe.
02:47
Just attach it.
02:52
2.27, did you copy?
02:56
Freedom, go ahead.
02:59
Negative, not open.
03:03
Before, thank you.
03:10
2.30 station, 106 supports.
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2.30.
03:20
227 station.
03:24
27.
03:26
Tending opened in here, no.
03:29
104.
03:34
Get a lot show.
03:36
Okay, go ahead.
03:37
Go ahead.
03:40
We're probably going to need more than just 241.
03:43
It's not bad area of visibility is very well.
03:50
Edward.
03:56
Where is I in County tonight?
03:59
221-11. That's on 43.
04:06
I'm just advising the semi's position is such that semi's passing have about maybe six inches between them the gargrail.
04:19
Everything from the exterior right now appears 10 to.
04:24
Good.
04:26
She's going to 243.
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