Traffic snarls after tractor-trailers hit mirrors on Route 316, Bloxom VA
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TrafficTwo tractor-trailers strike vehicle mirrors on Route 316, causing a severe traffic jam; vehicles moved to Bloxom Firehouse to clear the highway after a prior fatal accident.
Audio|Heard on: Accomack County Public Safety
Listen to dispatch call
01:54
Transcript:
00:00
Okay, we got one in the northbound and one to southbound on Mears Station Road.
00:04
Can you advise Trooper to see if we could get these vehicles out of the road because we still have traffic from the fatality up there on the highway?
00:17
One northbound, one southbound.
00:20
State Police call, time I'm calling then and advised again.
00:23
If I can get an ETA.
00:24
Do you need Sheriff's Office?
00:28
Negative. Which is me, State Police just to report there's two mirrors been hit by two tractor-trailers, but they're slowing up traffic here on 316 from the fatality accident.
00:41
Proceed that and understood.
00:55
Go ahead. As long as they're remaining on the scene, you can open it up.
01:00
First Sergeant.
01:06
5,
01:08
G4. Both vehicles are movable.
01:10
They're causing a severe traffic jam.
01:12
Ask the sergeant if we can move into Bloxom Firehouse to continue this and get the traffic cleared up.
01:18
That is affirmative.
01:22
10-4[1], thank you.
01:36
Order 16-1.
01:39
Yes,
01:46
sir, both vehicles have been removed in the roadway.
01:48
They're heading to Bloxom Firehouse, first aid police.
01:50
They continue the paperwork there.
01:53
316 is open.
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10-4: Acknowledgment/Affirmative
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Bloxom, VA 23308
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