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Crash with fire traps driver near Capitol Toyota in Salem, Salem OR

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Reported: 10/13/2025 10:45 PM

Near Auto Group Ave NE, Salem, OR 97301

A semi-truck and a sedan crashed near Capitol Toyota on Auto Group Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr Parkway. A black truck with a trailer caught fire and the driver is trapped inside. Both vehicles require extrication. Roads at Cherry and Broadway are closed due to the incident.

Audio|Source: Salem Police Dispatch

02:13

Transcript:

00:00

District 3, we've got a crash in front of the Capitol Toyota off of Auto Group Ave near Dr.

00:05

Martin Luther King Jr Parkway. I think two vehicles, semi versus a sedan, I believe. We've got Umedica dispatch, still getting further.

00:16

Wait two, please, you can reroute me.

00:24

Copy. It sounds like one of the vehicles involved,

00:27

the black truck with a trailer, is currently on fire and the driver might be trapped inside.

00:37

124 can you put me all, please?

00:44

Copy.

00:50

We're going to need north and southbound lake block.

00:56

Copy.

00:57

One that's actually trapped. We're going to be fired here.

01:05

Fire in the truck is at this point.

01:11

Copy.

01:17

I don't see any active leading but we do have to feel that on the ground. Okay,

01:32

so we're going to have two that are stuck, actually, one's going to be in the track, both are going to need to get most likely extricated.

01:43

36-135 are you right there at Cherry. Can you just dive her if I got it?

01:49

We're going to get a shutout at Cherry and at Broadway.

01:53

Two,

01:56

three, they got a shit down on Broadway.

02:02

124, I'm coming in the area where do we need more units?

02:07

Well, we just need to get completely shut down north and south, and then just get on seeing. We're going to have a lot of people we're going to have to interview.

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Near Auto Group Ave NE, Salem, OR 97301

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