Single-vehicle crash near Beckley Travel Plaza with driver absent, Beckley WV
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TrafficA single-vehicle accident occurred near Beckley Travel Plaza involving a tractor trailer. The driver may have been ejected or fled on foot. Another work truck was involved but the tractor trailer was not struck. Footprints were found indicating the driver left the scene on foot.
Audio|Heard on: Raleigh County Public Safety
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04:44
Transcript:
00:00
PSC 23 to control.
00:04
1041.
00:12
26, 2400.
00:17
No one's in his stick up.
00:20
I don't know if he got ejected or if he's separate with the other truck, but I don't see anybody around the Ivy out searching.
00:35
Control 157.
00:38
Okay.
00:40
Signal 6, 2 tractor trailers in the Beckley Travel Plaza parking lot.
00:44
They're going to be both in the aisle,
00:47
not in spaces.
00:48
One's a rocket transport with the green cab and the other one's burn it with a black cab.
00:56
That's all being around.
00:59
26, 24 for 12.
01:04
This is going to be a single vehicle.
01:12
Tractor trailer not involved?
01:15
Negative.
01:19
Don't work.
01:22
Be out looking,
01:24
the tractor and trailer driver said he poured up on it.
01:27
Nobody's around the vehicle.
01:29
He may have took off.
01:35
Have a word.
01:40
21 control, I'm on scene here also.
01:49
PSC 20 control, I copy, I'll still be in right there to assist me too.
01:54
interval.
02:00
Control 122.
02:04
122.
02:11
You can show me out.
02:12
It's going to be Tennessee registration.
02:16
Uniform (number withheld).
02:23
Okay.
02:30
Control 674.
02:32
674.
02:35
6704s busy company traffic.
02:44
Control 674 can copy movie.
02:50
Affirm, yeah.
02:58
2639-02.
03:02
Go ahead.
03:06
Hey buddy, Exit 44 on-ramp northbound.
03:09
There's a small motor home there, seven of these four ways on.
03:14
Tenfold.
03:20
22,
03:21
2639.
03:25
Okay.
03:27
He's pulling off now, Ab.
03:33
Bill.
03:35
Two.
03:39
21 to the unit responding here at 15.
03:46
Aet control going direction, no one.
03:52
Hey, it looks like he ran out towards that little road.
03:55
I found his foot tracks going up over the hill here.
04:00
Is it okay that we move this vehicle out of the lane?
04:07
You're advising it is just a single vehicle.
04:10
Tractor trailer's not involved.
04:13
There is another vehicle involved, but it is a work truck that was hauling like a cable reel.
04:20
That guy hit him in the rear end.
04:26
That patron just pulled back on the scene.
04:33
I'll just stand by there.
04:40
The patron here, he can't speak English.
04:43
You'll have to speak to the person that's on the phone.
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Location mentioned:
Vankirk Dr, Beckley, WV 25801
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