About 30 cars involved in street race on Sam Ridley Pkwy, Smyrna TN


About 30 cars are participating in a street race on Sam Ridley Parkway, causing the intersection to be shut down and creating heavy traffic congestion.
Audio|Source: Smyrna Public Safety
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Transcript:
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406 to 412, there's several, I mean multiple cars still coming Sam Ridley heading westbound.
00:06
I think they're good now.
00:07
They've got the intersection shut down so they can't go anywhere beyond that.
00:10
104, I'm just telling you, there's at least 30 cars still coming up Sam Ridley towards the park.
00:15
The race is just starting now.
00:17
Okay, they just pulled the trigger.
00:18
Here they come.
00:19
We've got cars coming from the backside of threes.
00:23
They're on the race truck. Hey,
00:24
just hold that car up right there.
00:25
They can't go anywhere because the racers are coming down.
00:27
Three now.
00:28
Unless you want to send them over here and I'll send them northbound towards Lavern.
00:31
They're stuck where they're at.
00:32
They're going to be stuck there for probably, I don't know, I guess about 45 minutes, but if they want to come out this way over where I'm at where this light is, I can get them out because the racers are still down three to a little bit.
00:43
The racers are our stranded around them.
00:45
They can't go nowhere.
00:46
The races are speaking federal now, because we're going to go out.
00:49
We have to go now.
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Location mentioned:
Sam Ridley Pkwy E, Smyrna, TN 37167
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