Two-car crash damages poles and blocks Superior Ave, Cleveland OH


Two cars were racing eastbound near 30th and Superior Ave when they crashed. The crash caused wooden utility poles near the southwest corner of 40th and Superior Ave to break and wires to fall. The road is blocked by broken poles and glass. Cleanup crews are needed to clear debris and manage traffic.
Audio|Source: Cleveland Police and Metro Housing Authority
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Transcript:
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The real-time cameras maybe at 30th and superior, or anywhere closer to there.
00:07
Supposedly these two cars were racing coming eastbound from like 30th before they crashed.
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I will check and see.
00:24
Free father radio, the start of my office is going to be 7-8-4.
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Port for me.
00:35
Amped, is this yellow pole or a wood pole?
00:39
Woodpole? Woodpole.
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And which corner?
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This one, 686666. This is a metal tag on there that says, above it says Mike, Edward, Lincoln, Paul.
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And then there's another tag that says NE 730.
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So the one that says Mike, Edward, Lincoln, Paul, 6866,
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that's going to be a rectangle sign. The other one's going to be a square. It says northeast 730, NE 730.
01:19
Happy, where the wooden pole is down, what corner of the street?
01:25
It's, uh, let me get you.
01:27
It's Caddy Corner from near Superior Ave.
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It's just west of 40th.
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Adam, before radio.
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Go ahead.
01:40
The tow truck drivers here believe it's CEI.
01:46
We're back in the first.
01:47
The road boss is good with it. How do we look for a late lunch back at one?
01:51
Followed by our report.
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CPP is faster, so they're at least going to respond out.
01:57
Pretty old, boss.
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2nd33. It's okay.
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Copy, 422. Adam 3.4. You're good for it. Enjoy.
02:05
Joppy, thank you.
02:07
Okay, right now we have...
02:10
Some down wires, we're going to have to keep a car here.
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It doesn't appear that they're live, but I'm not sure.
02:16
You've got a couple.
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There's a driveway here.
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You get a couple on each side of the driveway for this Castelli Marble.
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You're welcome.
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Copy.
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Do you look up the address to Castelli Marble? I'm not seeing it. It's, like I said, it's on the southwest corner of 40th.
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That's where the poles are broken, the lines are down.
02:42
Okay.
02:43
I got near Superior Ave, near Superior Ave. Okay,
02:48
thank you.
02:49
Marty, if you want to Sam 3-2.
02:52
Go ahead.
02:56
Yeah, we just finished Tahr and while we were only to locate them.
03:03
Okay, if you guys could head downtown on that special attention, I appreciate it.
03:08
We copy.
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Adam 3.5 of 7.3.4.
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Sam 3.4, good.
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A.S.R., we look for no lunch.
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You guys are good for it.
03:25
Thank you.
03:27
All right.
03:32
I would look for lifting in free.
03:43
Thank you. Am I going to give out lunches? I have no other priorities.
03:47
Yeah, you're good to give out lunches.
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Okay,
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3-1 and joy. 424.
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Thanks a bunch.
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We're going to hear.
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425.
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132 to radio.
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32. We can go out for a boss for a no lunch or late launch connection with this Berg arrest report that we set to complete.
04:26
And Sam 3-2 to radio, I don't know if you have an emergency number for streets, but there's a bunch of glass.
04:33
Fire's sweeping it and blowing it to the curb as much as they can, but we're definitely going to need somebody out here.
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A-Saf to clean this up,
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or we're going to have a lot of flat tires.
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Near Superior Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114
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