Semi-Truck Swerves and Cuts Off Car on I-5 in Redding, Redding CA


A semi-truck with a dark green cab and silver trailer was swerving at high speed on southbound I-5 near Main Street in Redding. The truck made obscene hand gestures and repeatedly cut off a silver Volkswagen Jetta. Multiple callers reported highway violence linked to the incident.
Audio|Source: CHP Northern Division - Redding Dispatch Center
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Transcript:
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Story report, I go southbound from Dishol, I-5 from DeShute, semi-truck, dark green cab, silver trailer.
00:04
Number 14 on the trailer with Lomberg, with Pantile transport on it.
00:08
And in other traffic, swerving 70 miles an hour, obscene hand gestures at the RP.
00:11
Oregon, (number withheld) returns clear to a 1992 Oshkosh out of Oregon.
00:17
Reading, Clear, Kp, T, 227 at 1826.
00:19
3753 way copies out of position
00:21
Attention, running unit, special attention 3753 Boy.
00:25
Additional callers reporting that there's a highway violence involving that big rig, south on I-5, south of Main Street.
00:31
The suspect vehicle is the silver Volkswagen Jetta.
00:34
Unknown 28.
00:35
Correction, we do have the 28.
00:36
It's 7 Mary King Victor (number withheld).
00:38
The driver is the X-ray with glasses.
00:40
Pulling in front of the flatbed that's loaded with lumber.
00:42
They kept getting in front of the big rig cutting them off and squirt.
00:45
at the reporting parties advising that some might also have to form to miss.
00:49
South 9.5, south of Main Street.
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I-5, Redding, CA
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