Highway 41 shut down due to metal debris and flat tires, Princeton IN
Road ClosureA semi-truck spilled metal debris on Highway 41 near Princeton, causing multiple vehicles to get flat tires. The highway was shut down as emergency units and INDOT coordinated cleanup and blocked intersections to prevent traffic.
Audio|Source: Gibson County Sheriff, Fire and EMS, Princeton Police
05:50
Transcript:
00:00
Good question, can you inform INDOT that we need a sweeper and if you put a pixel out, 41 is going to shut down and fill further another.
00:10
I'm ready to stay.
00:11
Okay.
00:14
264, 261.
00:17
Good.
00:20
Do you want to come out and relieve somebody so they can take calls?
00:28
To your discretion, I think we'll have one available.
00:36
Clear.
00:38
Thirteen, I've got my radio, my gun on me, if you need me.
00:43
Clear.
00:48
There's nice chance.
00:49
Just 1043 of the perimeter, so I'm doing anything.
00:51
They're all flat perception, middle.
01:00
Okay,
01:04
clear.
01:06
We've actually got 41 shut down.
01:08
There won't be no traffic coming through unless somebody comes off the off ramp,
01:12
which I think that's what they're doing now, if they're going up around the off ramp.
01:17
But as of right now, 41 will be shut down.
01:23
Okay.
01:33
This batch engine one's in route.
01:35
None of that audio came through the page.
01:55
Go ahead.
01:58
Dave, we got the semi losing metal from Richland Creek all the way down to the construction south.
02:07
Vehicles out here are flat tires and there's metal all over the row.
02:10
We just basically need to shut the road down.
02:17
Engine one's clear.
02:27
261, 264.
02:30
Are you able to get old 41 to northbound 41, apparently the smell is going further than we talk?
02:47
This is saying, I'm just getting now informed that the semi that's dropping all this metal is coming back southbound.
02:54
141, I do not have a description, but I know that they're possibly dropping a lot more metal coming back south.
03:06
Sitting that way.
03:09
That unknown location on where they're coming from, southbound, 141.
03:17
Two.
03:25
One this down has a video.
03:27
It is a green trailer with its gate open and a maroon tractor on the front.
03:38
We are clear, thank you.
03:47
(name withheld).
03:49
Matt Deputy.
03:52
Go ahead.
03:54
Yeah, can you bring that small set of traffic cones up here and some caution tape?
04:03
Yeah, I'll be a little minute.
04:13
2610 dispatch.
04:15
Clear.
04:17
The information,
04:21
contacted Solis,
04:22
they have some different accounts.
04:24
I believe Brian was going to try to get a hold of one of the other teams.
04:29
Also contact the state, they will be around with the street sweeper.
04:33
Of course, that's the two-hour call out, just like normal.
04:39
Clear.
04:48
Engine 1. Go ahead for Engine 1.
04:53
Engine 1, we're going to continue north to see if we can find any more debris since you guys are here.
04:59
They just want to block every intersection that we can.
05:03
Matt's got to shut down construction.
05:07
Andrew 1 is clear.
05:09
You want us to just shut down Lachlin Creek then?
05:13
Yeah, for now,
05:15
let Matt have some other ID might contact him.
05:22
Player.
05:27
11 engine 2, 6.1.
05:40
Hey, Kevin.
05:42
I went north from 64, still northbound almost to Hazleton.
05:46
41 left's clear.
05:48
You had three vehicles with flat tires, though.
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US-41, Princeton, IN
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