Tractor-trailer with flammable load overturns on highway ramp, Memphis TN
TrafficEmergency responders are handling an accident where a tractor-trailer carrying flammable paint overturned on the eastbound ramp from Mill Branch to I-240. The trailer flipped and spilled paint over the lanes, but the situation is being managed and casualties are non-critical.
Audio|Source: Memphis Police and Shelby County Sheriff
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Transcript:
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Check code in this accident with 254, 240 and Nill Branch. Therevising, eastbound,
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ramp, tracking trailer flipped over, fire departments and route.
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Can you go that's the last read? I'm not getting that to verify.
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Zulu, Oscar, Yankee, Sierra India, Alpha.
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Okay, Tarragutza.
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Where are folks in the room?
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144, you can show Unit 45 on scene. They're going to be transporting the St. Flint that's non-critical.
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Unit 45, St. Francis, non-critical?
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Check, non-critical.
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That should be ryan.
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You said, on the exit ramp.
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Check.
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And 255 they need additional floor on that accident and I can pull over.
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Go ahead and pull away my need chest control.
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Okay.
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2.16-9,000 red.
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207.
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Hello, seven.
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It's got an accident on the interstate, 240N bridge is what we got, eastbound,
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eastbound ramp, got a tractor trailer flipped over, has flammable liquids on it.
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I'm saying you show me in without a report arresting.
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7-7-6 and 7.
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Okay.
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If it gets there, this situation.
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Vendalism is at (number withheld) North Watkins,
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an accident range line at Lake Crest.
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11thville.
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Okay.
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Pickle.
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Check.
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I give you a former number.
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All right, you started to call for playing back.
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Semma.
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Check, they're on the scene. Life's going to be, it's on their eastbound ramp to get on 240 from your branch, and they're already on the scene.
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Okay, did you advise if it was leaking or if you had the time of the liquor cart?
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It contains, I'll get several different information and says contains has the material paint and there's paint over the lanes.
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Location mentioned:
I-240, Memphis, TN
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