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Wrong-way driver causes multi-vehicle crash near NC-54 and NC-751, Durham NC

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Traffic

Reported: 12/17/2025 12:20 AM

NC-54 & NC-751, Durham, NC 27707

According to the dispatch call, a wrong-way driver caused a multi-vehicle crash involving several semi-trucks on I-40 near the NC-54 and NC-751 interchange in Durham. Emergency responders are treating patients and preparing to transport them.

Audio|Heard on: Durham City Fire

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02:3

Transcript:

00:00

I-40 westbound just past 751 as you're approaching the exit for 54.

00:04

Acknowledgment / OK. We're coming from the direction of the boulevard.

00:13

Would it be the best, y'all think, to get on at Farrington and come to 751 or go to the boulevard 40?

00:22

Just keep going down the boulevard, go 40 east, get off on the 751 exit and come back around.

00:37

Got me.

00:39

Okay. Medic, you have a mention 16.

00:41

Which patient we need to go to?

00:46

Medicare is a medic too.

00:50

Good.

00:53

We are on scene at the time with our patient.

00:56

We're going to go past our ambulance by approximately 500 or 1,000 feet just under the exit sign for 273.

01:07

There's going to be an officer there with a GPS driver.

01:14

I can't be under the end of the time.

01:17

Two seconds a second period.

01:20

Be advised our patient is a wrong way driver on I-40s truck.

01:25

Approximately a half dozen semi-trucks appear for damage.

01:34

19

01:43

Medics here to medic 3.

01:45

Go up to the 18 wheeler where fire is.

01:47

We're getting ready to transport.

02:01

communications, you can show engines in the world available.

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NC-54 & NC-751, Durham, NC 27707

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