Two-vehicle accident near Carpenter Drive and Roswell Road, Sandy Springs GA
TrafficA motor vehicle collision involving two vehicles occurred near Carpenter Drive and Roswell Road off I-285. Multiple callers had difficulty reaching 911 and then contacted the Sandy Springs Police directly for assistance.
Audio|Source: Atlanta Area Amateur Radio Repeaters
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Transcript:
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Here, go.
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I need police at Carpenter Drive near Roswell Road,
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just off I-285. I am unable to get through to the police.
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I'm off of 285 Carpenter Drive and Roswell Road.
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Is that you, Daniel?
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Make a call for him.
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Yeah, copy that. Make sure I got the right. So it's 285 Carpenter Drive and Roswell Road. You need police.
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Roger.
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Near Carpenter Drive at the salon and 5811.
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Copy that, I'm calling 911 now. Can you give me a little information about what's going on?
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Yeah, motor vehicle accident, two vehicles involved.
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All right, copy that. I'm calling 911, KM4 at the KM.
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Okaym.
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Emergency traffic.
01:38
This time I've talked to this many musicians at the same time on Ham Radio.
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I'm always surprised how many bass players are also hands.
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I know at least two others.
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Another bass player keeps swearing he's going to take his test.
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I just saw him when I played a festival Saturday.
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And he once again said, I swear I'm going to do this.
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And I said,
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well,
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you know where you can get help if you need it. But yeah,
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sometimes it can get interesting here.
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KAM4 SGM, I'm also not able to get through 911 currently.
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Go ahead about 911.
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This is K&4 SGM. I'm not able to get through to 911 right now.
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It keeps putting me on some kind of voicemail and sending me to hold and re-dialing.
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That's what I'm getting as well.
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Are you, are you AT&D for chance?
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Are you on AT&T's network? I'm on D-Mobile.
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All right, let me,
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funny enough, my dad actually worked at AT&T on the network and typically knows about any kind of outages like this. I'm going to reach out and ask you something going on, and I'm going on one.
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In for BPB.
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Go.
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Uh, why don't you just call the direct number? for Sandy Springs police.
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You might get there a little sooner if you get to the operator there.
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Or even perhaps a local fire station. If there's injuries, you're sure the best judge there, but either a local fire station or a local police station. No, there's a fire station pretty close.
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The number for the Sandy Springs Police Department is (number withheld).
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Repeat that one, (number withheld).
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(number withheld).
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Location mentioned:
Carpenter Dr NE, Sandy Springs, GA 30328
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