Traffic accident shuts down I-96 westbound near Whitneyville Bridge, Kent County MI
TrafficA traffic accident on I-96 westbound near Whitneyville Bridge forced the highway to shut down. One vehicle was facing the wrong direction in the westbound lane, and another was on the shoulder. Emergency responders closed the road and requested assistance to manage traffic and divert vehicles at the Alden Nash exit. No injuries were reported.
Audio|Source: Kent County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Just be advised, I'm shutting down 96 westbound at the Whitneyville Bridge.
00:04
For about 10 minutes while I set up a zigzag with my engines.
00:07
We do have one vehicle facing eastbound in the westbound lane, another one on the shoulder.
00:14
So in about 10 minutes I'll be able to open this back up.
00:16
Real slow. Westbound at Whitneyville do have one vehicle that's facing eastbound of the westbound.
00:21
No additional injuries.
00:23
Both drivers on the second vehicle are okay.
00:26
No need for ALF.
00:27
No additional injuries, no need for ALS.
00:29
We're out of calling the Lusigalanya, I'm from 5.
00:32
Just from Chisham Cascade Inger 1.
00:33
Cascade Endrum 1, go ahead.
00:35
With the placement of the cars, we're going to keep the highway shut down.
00:37
Can you call and see if Elto can help us shut down the highway?
00:41
They had their exit, Alden Nash exit, so we don't have any more vehicles coming this direction so we can get this one vehicle off the road with the tow truck.
00:48
The highway shut down for a minute.
00:50
I will tone alto for additional units to help shut down the highway.
00:54
Did you copy that traffic? We're going to keep the highway shut down at this time.
00:59
Command they do copy that.
01:00
I'm going to start rerouting some of our backup into the turnaround here.
01:03
It's going to be a while.
01:04
Yeah, it'll be whenever the tow truck gets here, so it could be, who knows.
01:07
It's probably worth getting people turned around if we can.
01:09
Copy that.
01:10
Help you want me know when you're ready?
01:12
On a traffic accident, 96 westbound east of M6, 96 westbound east of M6, I'm going to have the highway shutdown at Whitneyville, the westbound side, requesting units to assist the traffic at the Alden Nash exit.
01:30
This is clear at 5.57.
01:31
44 I think we're good to slowly let them through.
01:34
I think we're good to slowly let them through.
01:42
Elto Cartoon Service.
01:44
Alto. Delta Cartoon Service has 0600.
01:47
And dispatch from Alto Cartoon.
01:48
Just confirming, they want us to close the expressway down at Alden Nash.
01:53
Is that right? No one from our dispatch.
01:54
That way down at Alden Nash.
01:56
Divert traffic on the Nash.
01:58
That'd be great. It's westbound.
01:59
All right. I'll go ahead too.
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I-96, Cascade Township, MI
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