Gold pickup swerves and nearly hits cars on Old Athens Rd, Mercer County WV
TrafficA caller reported seeing an older model gold pickup truck swerving in and out of lanes on Old Athens Road. The truck almost hit several cars. It was last observed leaving Athens towards Princeton.
Audio|Source: Mercer County Public Safety Dispatch
02:26
Transcript:
00:00
Any of the available law enforcement? New response.
00:03
Old Athens Road going towards that,
00:06
correction.
00:13
Right now.
00:20
reference to an older model four pickup that was coming out of Athens at the time of the call. Well, actually we have the lady still on the phone.
00:30
She was following this pickup gold truck swerving in and out of lanes. They almost hit a few cars.
00:40
They're now, hang on one second, let me get the update where they are.
00:50
Come us to the Daily Mart.
01:00
Going outside of Athens, I'll pull over here and see if I see it.
01:04
Copy.
01:11
Come on them.
01:14
I'm on Clark Farm, I don't see any old Ford trucks, not see anything really out of ordinary, long line of traffic, but nothing old.
01:30
Joe, what was the description of the truck? They have a 28 or, uh,
01:36
any idea of what model it might be?
01:39
That's going to be a negative when you two were talking to each other. She's still on the phone. She said they just passed.
01:50
Someone, one of you officers had just passed the caller that was on the phone.
01:57
I'm not sure what area it was.
02:00
She's headed in the S-curves.
02:03
So if you didn't see it before you got to the S-curves, then I would say it's probably out of your area.
02:11
Control, I don't think you ever told us, are they heading towards Princeton or heading towards SummerScanley?
02:17
Standing towards Princeton.
02:23
Get a description I'll pull over here, Melrose, they're probably behind me some way.
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Old Athens Rd, West Virginia
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