Highway lanes closed due to disabled semi truck, Louisville KY
Road ClosureAuthorities closed westbound lanes of Interstate 264 and possibly Interstate 65 south near Louisville due to a semi truck stopped on the exit ramp. Fire trucks are used to block the highway and sand trucks have been called in. Officers are coordinating to prevent vehicles from entering the closed area to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Louisville Metro Police 1 - Divisions 6 and 7
02:49
Transcript:
00:00
Hey, can you just try and shut down this whole expressway? We're basically sitting ducks right up here.
00:07
Yeah, I'll see if 3 Adam can do it. I'm going to try to get through and find the semi, because apparently it's sitting on the exit going 65 south.
00:16
Or they're just splitting through us, so we just... Hey, go ahead and shut it down.
00:25
If you want to help them shut down the highway, we can go look for the semi, because we're already up here.
00:32
10-4[1]. Just take 65 south, apparently it's the semi,
00:36
off to the side of the road.
00:38
Talk, is that you in the back, if it's you, if you could come up and help to shut it down?
00:43
104.
00:48
6.5 vector of those guys, buddy and said, you don't need any more, you guys are right?
00:54
We could probably use you if you come down here.
00:58
Okay, radio rad. We have to throw back to this.
01:02
Tim 4.
01:04
Hey, Boss, we'll see if you can use some of those fire trucks to block the whole highway.
01:10
Yeah, that's going to be our start point, and we'll just take the other three lanes.
01:20
What are we doing? Are we shutting down all westbound?
01:24
10-4[1], I'm just going to go ahead and move it and go back around.
01:27
All right, they're just cutting through.
01:34
104, radio be advised, 264 is going to be completely shut down.
01:38
104 is right there at top level.
01:42
The 13 allmarker westbound, tower forward.
01:46
104.
01:49
Rebecca Radio, just let everybody know we're waiting on sand trucks.
01:53
Our department's already called them in.
01:59
Two-four.
02:05
You set off on Poplar.
02:11
Whatever you got on 264 from Poplar. Take the ranch. Stop, stop, stop.
02:17
I'm good, I was going to go ahead and shut down.
02:21
Hey we're going to back up so they're going to pull up behind you.
02:24
Stop right there so they'll keep getting on the highway.
02:31
One through Baker radio.
02:37
Three Baker. Baker.
02:40
Ma'am, if you could reach out to other divisions that feed on the 264 West and have them shut down on ramps because we're going to have significant back-up.
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10-4: Acknowledgement; message received and understood.
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I-264, Louisville, KY
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