Debris identified as extension cord on I-65 southbound, Jefferson County AL
Road ClosureDebris was reported on southbound I-65 near mile marker 276. Officers investigated and found it was a yellow extension cord lying in the middle and right lanes of the roadway. Traffic was flowing normally, and no vehicles were stopped nearby. The debris posed a potential hazard to vehicles traveling on the highway.
Audio|Source: North Jefferson Police
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Transcript:
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7-1. Can you write the 19 southbound I-65,
00:05
280 over-the-access road, supposed to be a bit coil of steel or wiring the road?
00:10
7-1, copy.
00:12
Thank you. 7-1, I'm about to get on it to 281 and head southbound.
00:16
Tenfold. One, I've got nothing and then over the access road, I'm going to continue on southbound.
00:22
Simple, what are they talking? It's right there after the store of the breeze.
00:25
Somebody must have then run over and knocked it out of the roadway.
00:29
Simple. Call in by and off you y'all, sir.
00:32
1881 Do you see anything at 19?
00:34
There was just a little bit of something right there on the left hand was out there inside guard real, but it was way off the road what I saw.
00:42
10-4[2].
00:43
7-1, show me 10-8[1], November, traffic's flowing normal.
00:47
104 against 108.
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Got no vehicles on the side of the road,
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but flasher's on that cheated either.
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10.
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19, did you notice any streetlights?
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flashing or we kind of have brown out here for about three different times.
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Right now it's phones and everything are down.
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I didn't notice that when I came through on 31.
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Tenful. Everything's back on here now.
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7-1, I just saw the line.
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It's going to be around the 276 mile marker.
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It's going to be in the middle and right lane.
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Ten-four. You get it, find it?
01:16
Yeah, ten-four. It's not a coil or anything.
01:18
It looks like some kind of extension cord or something, maybe.
01:21
I'm trying to back up.
01:23
Yeah. Okay, it looks like it's yellow.
01:25
I don't know how far I've came past it.
01:27
I'm sure how to get this out of the road.
01:29
I don't think we can.
01:30
I just want to make sure it's not something that's going to damage cars.
Police codes explained
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10-8: In service
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10-4: Acknowledgment (Message received)
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