Police close Route 440 due to live electrical wires


Police are shutting down Route 440 because of sparking electrical wires. There are major traffic disruptions and all exits from Country Village are closed.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
02:25
Transcript:
Lieutenant, from the FD[2], it's possible that this traffic light might be coming down. So, notified the CIC. We're going to be shutting down Route 440 from (name withheld) going north. Units down there, no more traffic coming this way. If you've got some large trucks that can't go through Country Village, we'll try to get them through, but stop all traffic for now. So traffic starting at Country Village and Highway 440 is going to be halted completely? Here, Lieutenant, I just want to make sure I'm passing along the right message. Country Village Road and Highway 440 is main check down completely, correct? So 440 going north from the (name withheld) back there. We're going to have to shut it down. We're going to shut all exits from Country Village coming on 440 down. (name withheld) down there. Try to divert all the cars through Country Village. They can get out that way. The 18 wheelers will try to get through in the meantime. Received. So a priority right now, we're shutting down 440 back there by what (name withheld) in Jersey City meet. Let's get that one done first. All right, do you want me to try to reach out to (name withheld), see if they can help us out with this? Yeah, see what they can do. I think it's going to be more on us. They're going to say it's on us that they don't have anyone, but reach out for the city captain, see if the traffic unit or something can maybe be pulled from the south. I know they're tight in detail, but this is going to be a mess down here until (name withheld) can get a handle of this. And 393 as a point, if you have a notified DOT[1], notified them, they're usually pretty good for helping us out with traffic. And from (name withheld), these are live wires. You want everyone to be their sake back. So as right now, no other cars come through, not even the trucks. It's going to be had to stand still there. Try to put the small cars through Crunchy Village, but send them out that way.
Police codes explained
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[1]
DOT: Department of Transportation
[2]
FD: Fire Department
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Location mentioned:
Country Village Rd, Jersey City, NJ 07305
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