Wrong-way driver causes head-on collision on highway 385, Laurens County SC
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TrafficA wrong-way driver caused a head-on crash on highway 385 southbound near mile marker 7. Multiple fire units and command arrived on scene.
Audio|Heard on: Laurens County Fire Service
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04:41
Transcript:
00:00
Station 51, Battalion 1 respond, mile marker 7, 385 southbound.
00:05
This is going to be a head-on collision from the wrong-way driver, Delta response.
00:13
Laurens Central, Engine 151 is en route.
00:28
Tully1 is en route.
00:35
Copy.
00:45
Central Agent 281, Rescue, 251-0-501-0.
00:50
Copy.
00:53
I want to confirm a cell phone.
00:59
I want to confirm a cell phone.
01:05
If it's down the southbound side, mom worker said, and it was a vehicle treading northbound and southbound side.
01:14
Okay.
01:23
All fire units were responding, it's going to be at the nine southbound, nine southbound.
01:31
Is there one fifty one coppers?
01:36
I'm talking my cop.
01:38
No, if it's before X or after?
01:44
I'm not sure.
01:45
Get on at the 10 and goes southbound and you should see it.
01:52
Tell us.
02:02
Engine 151, I'm going to get on.
02:04
I go north, I'll tell you exactly where it's that.
02:09
And, of course, sir.
02:10
I brought up, hundred duster an hour going back down.
02:15
Two more, sir.
02:19
Okay,
02:27
I want to just let us know 251 where we need to get on at.
02:33
Ten for us, sir.
02:34
I will just get him home.
02:45
Another caller has said that this is going to be, he can see international paper from the vaccine, so southbound it's going to be just before the nine ramp.
03:02
Engine 151 Battalion 1.
03:03
Looks like somebody right there weren't going to get off on the exit.
03:29
Engine 251, Rescue, 251.
03:31
If y'all will, stand by.
03:32
We'll get a shutdown, you'll come up backwards.
03:36
Copy that. Getting on at 9, going north and the southbound.
03:43
Affirm us, sir.
03:44
Just stand by, though, until I can advise that we shut it down.
03:48
Ten point. We just now coming through town.
03:58
Lawrence Central.
03:59
Engine 151 is going to be on the scene.
04:01
2173 is going to have command.
04:07
Tenful.
04:16
Rescue 251,
04:17
engine 251, you'll come up backwards.
04:19
We've got to block.
04:22
Cancel.
04:29
He's caution, they're still getting off the exit right there, later.
04:35
Careful.
04:39
Lawrence Battalion is on scene.
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I-385, South Carolina
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