Multi-vehicle crash blocks bridge and ramps with injuries, Wheeling WV
TrafficA multi-vehicle crash occurred on Veterans Memorial Bridge and nearby ramps in Wheeling, WV. The crash caused injuries and blocked traffic. Emergency responders closed the eastbound lanes and ramps to allow ambulance access. Fire and police units coordinated to manage the scene and clear lanes for emergency vehicles. Traffic was redirected due to the incident and road closures.
Audio|Source: Wheeling Police and Fire
06:43
Transcript:
00:00
I'll have a squad too.
00:02
I'll have... I'll have PD to meet you right there if they turn around and come eastbound.
00:11
Chief just confirming you want us to come up eastbound, not eastbound and the westbound lane.
00:17
Some of Ohio units that consist us, please.
00:20
I need them to meet squad three, I believe it was.
00:22
There's three or two.
00:23
They're going to be in Bridgeport, getting on to the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
00:27
They're going to be on the ramp to go eastbound.
00:29
Across the bridge, we need them to shut down all traffic going eastbound.
00:33
That is all eastbound traffic when the FD unit gets there so that we can get the ambulance down here to load this station up.
00:40
Copy.
00:43
The FD is en route over there now.
00:45
That's perfect because you're not going to make it out if you come up the wrong way.
00:49
You have to go to the eastbound side and we're going to close the left-hand lane for you so we can have safe access to the loads of your patients.
00:59
Copy that.
01:01
32 to 4, I can head over there.
01:03
I'll chop that down as well.
01:09
Just about you can show me on scene.
01:12
See far on scene.
01:18
4-2 dispatch.
01:21
Go at 4-2.
01:26
Can you advise Bethlehem to shut down X2 and stop playing traffic onto 470, please?
01:35
We'll get...
01:36
Copy. I believe they're on seeing another crash.
01:38
We'll get somebody up there.
01:45
You just saw the top of 470 is the ramp coming down on a Route 2 westbound.
01:51
Is that clear of traffic now?
01:58
4-2, there's a record coming your way.
02:05
13 to 4-4 or 11.
02:07
Okay.
02:13
There should be a subject under Mike Wheeler with the shady side shirt on.
02:17
Can you have him get his license and vehicle information for this trust?
02:23
You need him up there?
02:26
I know, right? I'm going to need a picture of his license.
02:34
93 this match.
02:37
Go ahead.
02:41
I'm in Northwilling.
02:42
What's going on at West Banko Arena?
02:48
received a call from Scott Griff there as the operation manager.
02:52
There's a mail there,
02:55
Lewis Smith,
02:57
it's a black male.
02:59
State's he's hiding there.
03:00
He believes he has warrants to be the southwest corner by Black Door.
03:07
Ninety-three-day quarters.
03:08
Can you check Lewis, Duck Smith, see if there's any locals for him.
03:12
Squat 2 dispatch.
03:14
Do you have an ETA on OSB?
03:17
Dispatch 2-253.
03:18
What you're in for backup.
03:22
Squat 2, you need an ETA for once.
03:26
Hi, Sain Highway Patrol.
03:28
53.
03:30
Standby, we'll call them.
03:32
32.
03:35
5332, 151 North-20th Street, caller was (name withheld), her son, (name withheld), and a Cheyenne effort there doing drugs.
03:45
You want some remove from that?
03:49
53, I copy.
03:51
53 or 52. I'm on Main Street by the Carlers.
03:54
I can handle this call.
03:56
If you want to go up there, up to you.
03:59
That's fine. I'll get turned around here in North Wheeling and I'll go to North 20th Street.
04:02
Do you want to check on Doug?
04:05
Tedquarters, 933.
04:09
He's negative.
04:12
Rescue one just fast.
04:15
99353, you copy a negative.
04:18
Rescue one, go ahead.
04:20
Yeah, copy.
04:23
52, Unit 4.
04:30
Call back to me Brayden and have him stand by.
04:32
I can still see him in his rotator.
04:34
Tell him that we're going to try and get traffic out of the way and get him next to this truck and have him capture the trailer and pull it away from this car.
04:42
So have him just stand by.
04:43
I'm trying to get him in here.
04:45
10-4[1].
04:48
32-53.
04:51
Good.
04:54
If it's Louis Smith the third, I did just get a warrant for him yesterday.
04:57
I'll head down there with you real quick as well.
05:01
Okay,
05:02
um,
05:03
did the larger fellow with the Dreds?
05:07
Yeah.
05:11
562 to 13.
05:14
13.
05:17
The best way to get to you.
05:24
Probably just going to be...
05:30
Dispatch is Ohio responded to you.
05:33
C4 dispatch.
05:35
I'm sorry, remember.
05:36
They were notified.
05:38
T-4 ahead.
05:44
Okay, we've got several fire units there going to Ohio turning around so we can get this far left leftbound lane open to get the rotator up here and pull this truck out of the way.
05:54
Let me trust from here can get breakings up and open up one lane.
05:58
We're going to go to Ohio,
06:00
turn around, come back on the eastbound side, and we're going to close the left lane down soon as we can be transferred over.
06:08
That's copy.
06:10
You get forward to Mitchell.
06:12
Good.
06:17
Court one at wheeling.
06:19
Okay,
06:20
the far test lane that is going westbound, we are clearing it out.
06:25
Once Bradens pulls out,
06:27
I don't need anybody else behind Braden's.
06:29
We need that lane left open.
06:32
10-4[1].
06:37
10-4[1]. It's blocked off right now with barrels, so the only people are going down there are going on wetting down it.
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10-4: Acknowledgment / Message received
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