Flooding causes road closure and crashes on Ellsworth Rd, Mesa AZ
TrafficFlooding on Ellsworth Road near Legacy Avenue and Pecos causes hazardous conditions. Vehicles crash into the median and get stuck while attempting to pass through deep water. Authorities consider a full road closure to prevent further incidents. Assistance from off-duty units and traffic control measures are being coordinated to manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Mesa Police Department Superstition Patrol District
02:46
Transcript:
00:00
Can we see if we have block off part of Ellsworth? We have cars.
00:07
Standard 1 is 10331 is clear for Hedge Trail and Maine.
00:13
Is down or not?
00:18
Okay, so Channel 1 was trying to clear their channel and covered you the entire time.
00:24
Can you 109 that?
00:27
We're over here on Ellsworth.
00:32
We have a QC, we have a Queen Creek unit down there and a UC vehicle still letting vehicles through, but the vehicles are now crashing into the median, so I think it needs to be a hard closure if we can call them and say it's probably time to close this down.
00:46
Okay, you don't have to close it at Germain or where?
00:52
We're going to be just north of Legacy Avenue in between Legacy and Pecos.
00:57
It's very, very deep.
01:01
Off-duty is at Pecos?
01:05
Go ahead.
01:08
Just wondering if you guys are able to assist with that on Elfworth going northbound?
01:13
We can set up cones.
01:15
Church just got done letting out so we can help out with that.
01:18
Okay, thank you so much, just whatever you can do.
01:20
And I'll call QC and let them know they're off-duty needs to stay now.
01:26
I think it's the UCC vehicle, I'm pretty sure it's QuickPD, but yeah, they're now crashing to the median and going over into this traffic and almost hitting us, so we just need to shut this down.
01:34
It's way too deep. They can barely make it through.
01:41
And Vector 53, any updates at the vehicle at the left area? And we could probably put out an ATL for that vehicle through MCSO.
01:54
We're on.
02:02
Go ahead. What's really?
02:05
Is there any work on us? Yes, that's funny chance.
02:08
En route still.
02:10
Okay, thank you.
02:13
Hello to Beltran.
02:17
Hello to Beltrane.
02:18
Go ahead.
02:20
Are you able to get these vehicles turned around or are they just waiting to go through?
02:26
We're working on that just getting the cars from the back to back up and then we're going to start all being able to go back up and then start going north town.
02:35
Can you take your car to car to talk, please?
02:38
I copy. Let's turn to know anybody else doesn't work on either.
02:41
The water is now flooding over to the side and the vehicles are trying to come into on-coming traffic getting stuck with a median.
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E Pecos Rd, Mesa, AZ
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