Vehicles driving wrong way on Interstate 265 cause hazards, Louisville KY
TrafficMultiple vehicles are driving the wrong way on Interstate 265 near Stone St, causing head-on encounters and serious traffic hazards. Police are coordinating efforts to shut down ramps and divert traffic to prevent accidents.
Audio|Source: Louisville Metro Police 2 - Divisions 3 and 8
03:39
Transcript:
00:00
There's your car, one, sir. You all send cars the wrong way on 265?
00:03
We have not turned any traffic around yet.
00:05
Okay, they are driving the wrong way on 265.
00:08
I'll address, hold on.
00:09
Air 30 Radio. The cars that are turning around and going the wrong way are now, meeting other cars head-on in this line, another slider. I'm okay. Is there any way we can get so many cars that way to at least try to control it? Here, we can't intervene. They're almost for the ramp. All the cars are getting off the ramp. Looks like they're rolling on the left, the right shoulder, I mean. I'm okay.
00:37
We're slowdown traffic and off to where everybody got out of their way. 3.25-5-2, Charlie, are you at Nucut? Negative, I just pulled up 2-6-5-s-out between something for your new cut. It looks like if you could, you had the manpower, if you could shut down the Snyder at Nucut.
01:03
And then the cars that are coming the wrong way could get off at New Cut as well and it was leaving any dangers you have there. I'm okay radio to 320 or 329. Can we try to set down this matter at New Cutts? Not radio. We're going to need two units.
01:33
to shut down 841 at Stone Street. One of those units is going to need to be on the other between Stone Street and Dixie Highway going northbound to divert any traffic from Dixie Highway on the side or off onto Stone Street and the other unit to block Stone Street traffic onto 841. That'll cover that area. We're going to need the same thing on the opposite direction southbound on 841 from New Cut Road. So somebody north of New Cut Road
02:02
diverting traffic on the new cut road and then the new cut road ramp blocks so they can't get back on the other way so we have units down there but can you raise them so we know who we have where i'm okay can you on scene advise where they are on 265 north we start setting down the ramps to charlie and five baker will find a spot 265 is just going to take us a minute to get there
02:31
I have to get these cars turned around 2nd4 can I'm circling back and they get that new cut the exit 10 4 can i get another unit on the officer direction at new cut please 2 charlie in 5 baker we will take the ramps uh to get back on to Snyder
03:00
We drive them to the units up there on Steam. Are they turning cars around because somebody just said that they were? I need to know to tell these other motors. Negative not until we get a shutdown. We gotta wait till we get people move to shut down the ramps.
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Stone St, Louisville, KY 40217
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