Multi-vehicle crash under overpass with extrication needed, Springfield IL
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TrafficA multi-vehicle crash occurred under an overpass near I-55 in Springfield. A Tesla went underneath a semi-truck, trapping an adult and a child inside. Several patients require extrication and ambulance services.
Audio|Heard on: Sangamon County Public Safety
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04:29
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 2. I have four unit if you had crashed, a secondary crash.
00:05
If you want to,
00:07
we're using all the same incident number,
00:09
the rest of the FISD arrived at the press cars.
00:20
Rolling, pulling, sir, sir, sir, sir.
00:27
Scroll truck two.
00:30
Truck two.
00:33
We have a patient change (name withheld) mind on being transported, so we have a unit up here, the unit walk.
00:44
Firefighter, I have another patient here in the semi that wants to go to hospital.
00:50
Make that two patients.
00:54
Or almost jacked my car.
00:58
Springfield Ocean 230.
00:59
I attached a white BMW.
01:05
Ocean 230, that unit one.
01:11
Sam, I believe that we haven't spoke with the driver.
01:14
They're not on scene.
01:18
That's just in third temper.
01:29
Circuit overpass getting ready to head east on Sangamon and get on the highway right now.
01:40
Engine four, how many total ambulances do you need at your site? Engine 4, how many total ambulances do you need at your site?
01:57
At the original before the office,
02:01
I don't believe we need any of my drivers working right now.
02:04
I'm getting all the information and I'm walking up to underneath of the overpass where I was like for 9-1,
02:13
Engine 10 to go to.
02:16
Copy. We've got one en route to you if you're going to need more than one you need to let me know, please.
02:21
For this white BMW.
02:24
Engine 4 battalion 1 and truck one are both getting on the highway heading southbound down.
02:27
John is going to be the one tone up.
02:34
You can cancel.
02:37
Engine 11 from control.
02:41
11 go.
02:42
I'm going to have you house at station 2 until we get some units cleared out of the interstate, please.
02:49
Jobby relocating in station two.
02:55
Three-unit PD crash report in there.
03:00
Question you, seven, how far?
03:06
Avia's route for ALS is the goal against traffic from Stevenson,
03:11
northbound on the southbound lanes.
03:16
Copy. It's going to be a little extended, but they'll be in or out.
03:22
Yeah,
03:27
we have two young men here that change (name withheld) mind.
03:30
They want to be transported.
03:32
They could go on the same break.
03:34
I heard it's going to be delayed.
03:35
Go ahead and send another one on the overhead head south ground.
03:43
Nbulance take both these subjects.
03:47
That's affirmative.
04:07
Copy. Ingenten has made contact.
04:09
We have a Tesla with the front of the passenger compartment is underneath a semi.
04:21
I've got an adult and a kid in it.
04:26
They are, we are going to need extrication.
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I-55, Springfield, IL
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