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Box truck brakes catch fire on northbound I-85 in North Carolina, Granville County NC

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/8/2025 06:27 AM

I-85, North Carolina

A white box truck traveling northbound on I-85 near mile marker 202 in North Carolina had its brakes catch fire while still moving. Emergency units were notified and responding to the scene.

Audio|Heard on: Oxford Police, Fire and EMS

Listen to dispatch call

02:46

Transcript:

00:00

If you got anybody northbound 85 north of the rest area, maybe the 202, I just passed the box truck.

00:09

Brakes were on fire and it was smoking.

00:11

I'm trying to get turned around to head back north.

00:17

Turn 4.

00:23

A little white box truck ahead of northbound.

00:26

I probably coming up on the near 202.

00:31

Trevor.

00:36

Clear right, variable, neither.

00:37

All right, very well, neither.

00:41

All right, sentence, so.

00:44

Yeah.

00:46

Clearway it's calling around satellite.

00:48

Telling around satellite.

00:49

Teller Mesa.

00:55

50s essential.

00:58

6.

01:02

108, citation issues three times.

01:07

18, you 104.

01:08

18, you 104.

01:11

Go on thing.

01:15

Okay.

01:19

I don't know what in the search.

01:21

No.

01:23

Can you cutback fire to routine traffic started of 901 a M.S.

01:31

Ten, four, all you just cutback routine,

01:33

part of 901, Taylor.

01:36

See you ten, ten four?

01:39

Ten four.

01:41

Ten four. Ten four.

01:46

Between central, twenty, three.

01:49

Ten four.

01:54

Civil.

01:58

1092 on clean via the road.

02:04

Cool.

02:10

16 central.

02:14

16. 16. 16.

02:16

Everything's 104.

02:17

Everything's 104.

02:18

It's gravel county maintenance for the building.

02:22

Four.

02:27

Granville County units in the area of I-85 northbound near the 202, I-85 northbound near the 202, there is a white box truck with their brakes on fire,

02:44

they are still traveling northbound.

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