Traffic managed at highway on-ramp with wrong-way vehicles, Peru IL
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TrafficTraffic incident involved wrong-way vehicles on the highway on-ramp near Route 6 and I-39. Salt trucks and traffic control units coordinated to manage the situation and restore normal flow.
Audio|Heard on: Illinois State Police, IDOT, EMA and LaSalle County Sheriff
Listen to dispatch call
03:8
Transcript:
00:00
Backing up to the accident right now.
00:04
Time's four, I'm at the north end.
00:11
You think you're getting enough salt there, Dave, or do you need me to come down with you?
00:18
I've only got about a quarter of a box if you want to come down.
00:25
Oh, no longer will be so I can either keep going south or try and come down and solve with you.
00:34
Yeah, I'll go ahead.
00:35
Come on down.
00:40
Ten-four.
00:43
I'm backing down the driving lane right now.
00:47
Ten-four. I'll back down past the light.
00:57
Can we have the Reader's Digest Version, please?
01:04
Dennis.
01:07
Here, another thirty.
01:13
(number withheld) information.
01:19
(number withheld), I contacted Valcom to see if they can have a Peru unit head out to go shut down that entrance ramp.
01:25
Again, they aren't everybody right now from Peru, they're going to see if someone from Los Alcan head over there.
01:34
From Cardigan's rule.
01:37
Or just go with your spikes from the ramp.
01:44
2027, alright.
01:48
26, September.
01:54
Good night.
01:56
Where do you need, that's your track control line?
02:02
The on-ramp back to I-39 at Route 6.
02:05
We've got cars getting off and then going back on.
02:10
Got to do that, Uvice on-ramp, back to 39?
02:17
To I-39 southbound from Route 6.
02:26
3359. We're ahead, Dave Mideck come up there and he'll be the traffic control at the on-ramp.
02:30
During (number withheld), this information, I got cars go in the wrong way back up the on-ramp to Route 6.
02:46
Ten-four. I think once you get that done, they're going to start trying to weave some of these vehicles down through there.
02:53
And then we're going to have to get a truck on the north end to try to come through and get that other side.
03:02
and come through.
03:06
Start letting some traffic through.
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US-6, Illinois
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