Traffic incident closes I-71 northbound with diversion near Polaris Parkway in Columbus
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Columbus OH Law Dispatch
02:27
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6 % . You have cars on 270 westbound, 71 northbound closed off.
00:05
South and northbound also.
00:07
Six hundred and 46 , go ahead for you.
00:09
Six hundred and six, channel one.
00:10
Yeah, sorry.
00:11
Hey, copy that.
00:13
I'll be in route.
00:14
We'll get traffic one monitored, please.
00:16
Clear out there.
00:17
Mark back there.
00:19
And we have units headed eastbound and westbound to close down to 71 north, and then we'll need multiple units at the.
00:26
Northbound 71 to divert to 270.
00:30
On 61, I can shut down 71 north from 270 westbound.
00:39
13961, keep it for sure.
00:42
Everybody off on the drive, later exit.
00:44
It's a scene possibly hard north from there.
00:47
646. Yes.
00:50
(number withheld).
00:52
(number withheld), copy.
00:54
6. Yeah, hey, I was on the phone.
00:57
Did somebody say we're able to divert at Polaris and keep this smaller? Thirteen, are you working on diverting?
01:03
He's from, but there's four lanes.
01:05
There's no way I can do it by myself.
01:08
One hundred and 80 , we're two picture right here.
01:09
We can head to that five.
01:11
We can come up through 270 if they want us to divert from there.
01:14
Six hundred and six, can anybody who's at scene advise if we're able to divert onto Polaris as opposed to doing a full 270 diversion?
01:24
Thirteen, I think that we could be able to divert to Polaris.
01:28
Six hundred and seventy-six hundred and six, you want us to divert to Polaris Parkway?
01:33
Yeah, let's do that for now.
01:35
Yeah.
01:36
If we need to advance it back, we can, but it's going into a Saturday morning.
01:40
Traffic should be light.
01:42
If we can divert to Polaris, let's do that.
01:44
Try to keep it to a minimum.
01:46
Okay. And sir, traffic one is going to be.
01:48
Yeah, we're well north of Polaris exit.
01:51
Okay. Yeah, the run is a little unclear.
01:53
If we're north of the Polaris exit, let's divert to Polaris.
01:56
It's going to be a lot easier, require a lot less manpower.
01:59
666 here, we're traffic one is now being monitored.
02:01
And also that banner was accidental.
02:03
66. Six, I copy.
02:04
I'll be in route.
02:05
And yeah, one unit's on this mark back on traffic.
02:09
Ninety-sixty.
02:10
Ninety-sixty.
02:11
Can you add (number withheld) is going to be the red sedan.
02:18
I'll get you the same line in a 2nd .
02:19
Copy.
02:20
Sixty. Sixty.
02:23
Gonna have the semi driver in the rear of my freezer.
02:25
I copy. Semi driver in rear of your freezer.