Pickup truck makes illegal u-turn and drives erratically on highways, Akron OH
TrafficA white Ford Super Duty pickup truck made an illegal U-turn near a traffic light on I-77 southbound. The truck then merged onto Route 76 and 277 eastbound, driving with erratic lane changes and some swerving. Authorities tracked the vehicle as it continued on the highways.
Audio|Source: Southwest Summit County Public Safety
03:40
Transcript:
00:00
Caller is no longer with it. It's going to be a white Superduty pickup truck.
00:07
The white Superduty is the 19, we're saying?
00:11
Right.
00:13
All right, I want to just flip the Ui. He's getting back on. He was at the light. He flipped the Ui's getting back on 77 South.
00:24
Triple 7 will be getting off the field in a second.
00:29
All right, I got him. He's just getting back on southbound. Like he said, he was out of the light to get off, change his mind, and then just basically flip the U.S. light.
00:38
All right, he's going to take the first ramp here to the right.
00:48
Stand by.
00:49
76. He's going to take the 76. He's going to hop on 76.
00:55
Okay. I'm trying.
01:00
I guess regardless what he was doing before, I'm going to say that an illegal U-turn from that light, so unless I don't know if it's, I don't know if the light was green when he did it or not.
01:14
Sounds good.
01:20
20262.
01:22
Tell me, 262.
01:33
Still on to 76, he passed that first exit ramp all the ball fields are.
01:43
Is that going to be for battles?
01:53
There's (name withheld) in the lobby says he's here to see.
02:02
That's when it splits to 277, he'll be on 277 east.
02:07
On 277 east 1274, are you still on 277?
02:12
I'm at the 2 over 6.
02:14
I think you're going to be coming eastbound or westbound?
02:17
He's on the roundabout ramp. He's going to be hopping on 277 eastbound from the 76 split here momentarily.
02:25
I'm going to be pulled over here.
02:27
It's a 2 over 8.
02:28
Not positive where I'm at, but I think I'm probably closed.
02:37
He's eastbound on 277 from the 76 split.
02:44
All right, it should be coming to me then.
02:48
He's about two and a half mile back from you.
02:56
He's making a bunch of lane changes, I can't tell if he's using his signal, but he is, I guess, swerving a little bit down there.
03:07
He's just over the exit here that you guys aren't to get turned around at when we work at 277.
03:17
Right,
03:20
he should be coming up on you.
03:26
We'll be in the far left lane coming up to the Main Street ramps.
03:35
Behind the white SUV in the middle lane coming up in the right lane now just under the bridge for Main Street.
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I-277, Akron, OH
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