Multi-vehicle accident closes Interstate 75 in Sevier County, Sevier County TN
TrafficA major traffic accident involving multiple vehicles, including an Amazon truck and an electric vehicle, occurred near Interstate 75 in Sevier County, Tennessee. The crash caused the highway to close in both directions, leading to significant traffic delays and rerouting of travelers. The situation caused a complete standstill on the interstate while emergency crews worked to clear the scene. The highway closure and congestion impacted local traffic flow, with drivers seeking alternate routes to avoid the blockage.
Audio|Source: WB4GBI 146.940 MHz Amateur Radio Repeater, Sevier County TN
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Transcript:
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the GPS has me getting off the highway and going around about.
00:04
Must have been a pretty significant accident up here to have to shut the highway down.
00:14
They had 75 closed in both directions the other day.
00:20
I just figured I woke up solid and was like, yep, I'm not going that way.
00:25
I'll have nothing to do with that.
00:27
I'm sure it was a fatality.
00:29
The population reduction.
00:36
Yeah, I'm parked.
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I am literally parked.
00:40
So I'm not sure what's going on.
00:46
Where are you at?
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Are you in Knoxville or are you still out with?
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(number withheld) mile marker.
01:04
You're west of Watt Road then, aren't you? I'm trying to remember which one Watt Road is, but you're west of what road?
01:15
Well, (number withheld) is 75, and I am west of all that.
01:21
Yeah, I think you're out near Watt Road or just west of it.
01:25
I don't have them all memorized like it used to.
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Plus, my memory is not as good as it used to be.
01:33
I've hung around you too long.
01:36
Now, White Road, that's not Watt Road.
01:38
That's east of 75.
01:41
No, I'm way west of 75.
01:44
Oh, that's right, that's right.
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75 turns into 40.
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You're right, so you're still before this,
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before 40 and 75 merged together.
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Technically,
01:56
75 runs.
01:58
from Nashville, no, that's 40,
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75 runs from Chattanooga all the way up to, it becomes (number withheld) as you go through Knoxville until you get to 60.
02:09
And then it becomes 75 as it's going north.
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To the lie to me, I've never understood why they do it that way, but it makes sense when you think about it from a north and south perspective.
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But if you're coming from Nashville, you should be on 40, not 75, but I'm assuming that you're
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you're lost.
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That's what you are.
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So I'm (number withheld) east at (number withheld), mile marker.
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And the 75 split,
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that's what I'm saying, the 75 split is...
02:44
Uh... Jaystone!
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(number withheld)? Yeah, (number withheld).
02:56
Yeah, yeah, you're lost.
02:58
I know where you're at, but you're lost.
03:10
Well, there's a lurker in there that won't even identify.
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And you say yes to send me a text message.
03:19
Thanks, Chris.
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I appreciate that. Yeah,
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he said he believes it's an accident, but yeah,
03:28
well, whatever.
03:39
You mean none of your trooper friends told you where it was and want to avoid you?
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I know, really.
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K-I-4-U-N-K-K-3WA.
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WB4G-V-I repeater.
04:19
They must be busy.
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Sent me a text.
04:23
I guess he's maybe on the phone or just busy can't talk on radio, but yeah, I mean I haven't really moved very much.
04:33
My assumption is that everybody's getting off at the exit and then going around about a couple miles down the road and get back on.
04:51
Gee Perez, I ought to tell you which direction to go.
04:55
Mine's trying to tell me to go all different directions.
04:57
Well, it's trying to get me to go a different way and I'm going, but I don't like the city traffic.
05:02
I'd rather be on a back road driving slow and enjoying the view than I would be in a hustle and bustle sitting in the left lane stuck behind 15 idiots that don't know how to merge into the right lane.
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Set that and you're not going to believe what I'm coming up on.
05:33
What's that?
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Wreck and traffic stops on a two lanes.
05:49
Somebody hit an Amazon truck.
05:53
Ah, Cove's sake here.
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One in the electric, see a miracle if they don't catch on fire.
06:06
Remind me to show you if I haven't already where maybe I did.
06:13
I put it in the Discord at one point in time as electric vehicles.
06:17
Somebody come up with an invention where it ejects the battery in case of a wreck.
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That way it doesn't burn the car down so now you can burn your neighbor down.
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Yeah, you're ejected into, yeah, I think you did send it to me.
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That you ejected under east of another car or tree or house or something.
06:37
That's right, I think I fit that to you.
06:39
Yeah, you can eject it into the church in the right lane that should.
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I don't know.
06:46
I think it, I can't remember if it ejected to the right or to the left.
06:49
You need a button where you can pick which way to eject it.
07:02
Shoot that battery off like a missile.
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Yeah,
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you won't get out of left lanes.
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Watch this, boom!
07:15
Are you still in the interstate?
07:19
Oh,
07:21
we are just crawling up a little tiny bit.
07:28
Are you still in the interstate?
07:38
Yeah,
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we're barely moving.
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If they're getting vehicles off the interstate, it's going to take a while to get all these vehicles off the interstate.
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