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Garbage truck collision with unknown vehicle in iowa city, Iowa City IA

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Traffic

Reported: 12/16/2025 06:27 AM

Rochester Ave & Ashwood Dr, Iowa City, IA 52245

According to the dispatch call, a motor vehicle accident occurred at the intersection near Ashwood Drive and Rochester Avenue in Iowa City involving a garbage truck and an unknown vehicle.

Audio|Heard on: Johnson County Fire/EMS

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01:54

Transcript:

00:00

Engine One Iowa,

00:04

Iowa City, Cross Street, Rochester Avenue, and Ridgeway Drive.

00:11

Engine 1. JTAS4-1.

00:14

Respond to MVA.

00:16

At Ashwood Drive and Rochester Avenue.

00:19

Iowa City. Cross streets at Rochester Avenue and Ridgeway Drive.

00:27

Here come, Ingen 1.

00:29

Engine 1.

00:35

Engine 1 is responding to Ashwood in Rochester.

00:44

Copy, it's a garbage check versus an unknown vehicle.

00:48

The caller was not unseen, they were calling from solid waste.

00:52

There's allegedly a trap.

00:56

Do you want everyone else page two?

00:59

No, no. Whatever.

01:02

Thank you.

01:16

Truck 1-0-G.

01:18

Engine 4.

01:28

Engine 4, and Battalion Chief, J-CAS4-1, respond to MVA, at Ashwood Drive and Rochester Avenue, Iowa City.

01:39

Cross streets are Rochester Avenue and Ridgeway Drive.

01:44

J-CAS4-1, respond to MVA,

01:48

at Ashwood Drive and Rochester Avenue, Iowa City.

01:52

Cross Streets are Rochester Avenue and Ridgeway Drive.

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Rochester Ave & Ashwood Dr, Iowa City, IA 52245

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