Naked man runs on highway amid wrong-way driving and crash, Berkeley County WV

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Reported: 10/1/2025 08:59 PM

I-81, West Virginia

A naked man was observed running down the middle of the northbound highway near the 8.5 mile marker on I-81. A vehicle was also reported driving the wrong way on the highway lanes in the same area. A traffic accident with injuries occurred nearby, and emergency services were dispatched.

Audio|Source: Berkeley County Fire & EMS

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Transcript:

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County unit available for a traffic accident on an injury, eight and a half mile marker, 81 northbound.

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Yeah.

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Forty three months a vote ten-eight.

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Company 20, company 60, 167, station 98, paramedic respond for a track accident.

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8.5 mile marker, and they're taking you a northbound.

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Zero minutes.

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Sorry, I'm Marksburg. Security check at the square.

00:55

Okay.

00:59

Naked at the 8-mile marker.

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Not sure if it's related. We also received a call about a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound and the northbound lane.

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The call about the naked man, he said he was about the 8-mile marker, said that he was naked and he jumped on the vehicle and he was running down the middle of the roadway.

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Standby.

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973 to 9-1.

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Okay for 9-1.

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Do you want us to go that way?

01:32

Move on, Berkeley.

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We believe the traffic accident is the 8.5 related to this.

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I can believe she's there.

01:44

I am super shocked.

01:47

Sorry, so March for a key house, Berkeley, there's a cell tower location for a call. A four.

02:01

Pressuree in 64 and route with three for traffic accident, 81,

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northbound 8.5, time attack one, two minutes.

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She called my...

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I'll have a minute.

02:16

Okay.

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Then injury is 81 northbound area is 8.5. Time to check one, two minutes.

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Not once respond to 8.5 mile marker.

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A naked man was observed running down the middle of the northbound highway near the 8.5 mile marker on I-81. A vehicle was also reported driving the wrong way on the highway lanes in the same area. A traffic accident with injuries occurred nearby, and emergency services were dispatched.

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