Multi vehicle accident with entrapment on interstate, Springfield IL
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TrafficA traffic accident involving a semi truck and five cars occurred on I-55 southbound near mile marker 98. There was entrapment and injuries reported. Fire and EMS units responded to rescue and transport patients. Several vehicles will be towed to clear the highway.
Audio|Heard on: Sangamon County Public Safety
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03:37
Transcript:
00:00
I'm going to need two toes,
00:02
flatbeds here.
00:04
Justice is supposed to be coming for the third vehicle involved.
00:07
Can you check with them and see if they can grab two when they come?
00:12
Go for truck two.
00:14
Hey, just making sure that you are unable to clear at this point for another accident that's about the 98 north of you.
00:23
We are not able to.
00:25
I've only done them six is clear.
00:28
I just wanted to make sure it's coming in with entrapment and with you guys being that close I wanted to make sure no one was available to clear for it.
00:34
We have engine 4, engine 10, truck one, and battalion one en route to the 98 southbound, which is just north of Clear Lake.
00:44
Copy, yeah, we cannot clear.
00:47
Copy.
00:59
75 requesting another unit for traffic control and you start over there.
01:07
17, go ahead.
01:11
Yeah,
01:14
do you need us to head southbound from the Clear Lake exit.
01:22
Second,
01:23
let me make sure that they need here or not still.
01:27
Copy that.
01:28
Lake of 733, you can't hold them, eight oh six.
01:37
Copy, I'm going to cancel 17 at this point.
01:41
Second call.
01:45
864, Lexington 5.
01:47
864, Lex 775.
01:50
Hey, takes four.
01:55
Join her shale, callers (name withheld), has a Chris subject there.
02:04
Which channel are we running this on? And it looks like we need to take 55 southbound to meet up with this.
02:13
Chad I-122.
02:15
We're going to have the second accident, I55, Southbound 98 on Channel 3, it's within traffic.
02:22
And you're probably best is going to be Sangamund South to get to it.
02:27
And I'm not sure if the state's got the traffic shut down yet or not.
02:34
672, 1050,
02:35
I55 Southbound mile marker 98, I-55 southbound, mile marker 98, the semi-and-five-car pile-up, one vehicle, leg pain, entrapment, EMS is en route.
02:47
Fighters, you need anything up there?
02:51
Put me on that crash of the 98 southbound, being route from Sherman.
02:56
Motion 255-24.
03:02
670, Springfield status.
03:06
4.
03:09
4.
03:12
All units on scene at I-55 with engine five and engine two.
03:17
Here's what's going on.
03:18
We're going to transport two more patients.
03:20
The two white SUVs that are up front are going to get towed first.
03:24
Then it's going to be the black SUV that is on the side of this semi behind engine five and then the truck that is behind that semi that's behind engine five.
03:33
And then we're going to start opening up stuff on the highway.
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I-55, Springfield, IL
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