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Wrong-way driver on one-way street in Salem, Salem OR

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Traffic

Reported: 12/17/2025 07:13 AM

Center St NE & Liberty St NE, Salem, OR 97301

According to the dispatch call, a vehicle was reported driving the wrong way southbound on the northbound one-way Liberty Street near Center Street in Salem. The driver, a female approximately in her 50s with short hair and glasses, was driving a white or light gray Subaru. The vehicle almost collided with another driver at the intersection.

Audio|Heard on: Salem Police Dispatch

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01:52

Transcript:

00:00

Last unit

00:02

443 I'm not on the board but there's a wrong way driver going south on Liberty

00:08

and looks like it stopped at court but I wasn't able to follow I'll try to go around

00:15

Okay

00:18

It was like a white Subaru, white female driver,

00:24

or a gray Subaru Outback.

00:29

Copy.

00:34

2443, confirming the vehicle was going southbound on Liberty?

00:40

Okay, southbound and the one-way northbound.

00:44

Copy, thank you.

00:51

443.

00:55

443, go ahead.

00:58

I meet you.

00:59

She turned into me and almost hit me at Center Street, Liberty.

01:04

I guess maybe you could put the call in pending as an ATL in case people call, but I'll be clear how to get back to the station.

01:12

443, copy.

01:18

406, 443, I'm downtown, checking the area, you know.

01:24

Okay.

01:29

Is a white female maybe in her 50s, short hair, glasses?

01:38

I copy. Looking at the CAD, it said white super, is that correct?

01:44

Yeah, it was like a white or white gray light colored.

01:51

That got me.

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Location mentioned:

Center St NE & Liberty St NE, Salem, OR 97301

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