Vehicle rolling backwards on Durango Ridge Road, La Plata County CO
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A vehicle with clutch failure and hazard lights on is slowly rolling backwards on Durango Ridge Road. The brake may not hold, creating a potential hazard.
Audio|Heard on: Four Corners Area Fire and EMS
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01:27
Transcript:
00:00
DMS1, MediCorps, responding to 160 West.
00:06
It was holding the main brake, not currently moving.
00:10
If the driver takes their foot off the brake, it will roll backwards in the westbound lane.
00:16
Save red trucks.
00:22
Location on Durango Ridge Road, near 160.
00:25
Okay. Okay.
00:31
Next up, lead right up to 151 and then keep heading that northeast the ramping like down the road.
00:36
East thing in the stations either already hike them or long gone.
00:41
So I don't know if you want us to keep jerking around down here.
00:50
On whale site there directly north of me here on this point.
00:55
Otherwise we've got some information they were able to make contact with the wife.
00:59
He doesn't have a history of mental illness, but he is not home and neither are the dogs.
01:06
So we feel confident he's out here somewhere.
01:20
Hazard lights on, their engine is off and is rolling backwards slowly,
01:24
but the RP is worried that the brake won't hold.
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Location mentioned:
W Durango Ridge Rd, Colorado 81301
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