Traffic blockage and wrong-way vehicles on route 40 westbound, Baltimore MD
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TrafficAs discussed during the dispatch call, traffic on route 40 westbound near Franklin Street is blocked due to vehicles driving the wrong way. Law enforcement is turning the cars around and trying to clear the blockage until a tow truck arrives.
Audio|Heard on: Baltimore City Police
Listen to dispatch call
06:50
Transcript:
00:00
There's any way you can check the Southwest Channel because there's traffic going the opposite direction, I believe.
00:07
Yeah, 3954, you got everybody turn around that travel westbound.
00:12
It had eastbound on Mulberry.
00:13
You got about everywhere that went westbound going eastbound facing each other.
00:22
Um,
00:23
Caller states that a male is armed with a gun at the location, number one male wearing a white T-shirt, has a black handgun.
00:31
He also says that he's in a white Lexus L.F.
00:36
(number withheld). Acknowledged.
00:42
Acknowledged. Can I have a unit on the back?
00:46
David 1-6, you can show you on the road.
00:49
Definitely.
00:54
Oh.
00:56
Just my YouTube, you can't put in my phone.
00:59
I don't know traffic stop, near West North Avenue, all that are coming in, if you can.
01:13
One five.
01:16
One five.
01:20
Yes, ma'am, you could also show us a route to Route 40.
01:25
So, four, thank you.
01:31
Did they found or westbound?
01:35
Any set? I have three and five four.
01:37
I don't have a body camera down here on 40, but everyone is going the wrong way facing each other.
01:42
I'm just turning them around and set them back up westbound.
01:47
Okay,
01:48
telephone.
01:51
Yeah, you can't set them eastbound on the westbound side.
01:57
Cut up for.
02:00
We'll be there shortly.
02:06
Then Mr. Steve's calling,
02:09
stating that...
02:11
Having a suit at the location and the child's mother is making false 911 calls.
02:28
Person that, um,
02:31
Suspicious person entered the residence with a key.
02:33
Callers said the location is her aunt's residence and that they've been living there since 2021,
02:40
and then says it's the number one female, great shoes, sweatpants, multicolored jacket, she's at the door, she refuses to leave.
02:47
Caller says she's concerned for her safety and the cousin,
02:50
female won't leave, and the second call says she thinks she could have dementia or something.
02:57
All right, triple.
03:01
Do it for all be in the back hole.
03:08
To north pacing and frequently, that's the right of the David 29th call.
03:16
And this is the vehicle that's causing the traffic to be blocked up.
03:26
All right,
03:28
24, they're already on scene.
03:30
They said they'll take care of.
03:32
Attendance for Strudson Road to community squad.
03:36
Okay.
03:42
Application. Application.
03:54
Dr. 20. Section of a 37-year-old male named Brian Good Jr.
04:11
(number withheld).
04:15
I have a number one male on board transporting from 36.
04:22
Lai Street,
04:24
which was, um,
04:30
the Inter-D Street,
04:31
start the mileage is 2-254-2, 2-4-3.
04:37
Hey, I got a vehicle, just hit another vehicle and I was taking off from me.
04:43
Which location?
04:46
I'm an hour at me.
04:50
Sorry,
04:53
you're coming in side three, which is funny.
05:04
Yes.
05:05
Let me check and see what you...
05:13
Let me check... Just look at the second.
05:14
I'm trying to figure out exactly what is going on up here.
05:17
Uh,
05:18
these... Hold on, let me just a second.
05:21
Yeah, the westbound traffic is stopped up right before you get to Payson it's only one lane that I can't get around this disabled vehicle.
05:30
I believe that the cars that are backed up are turning around on a one-way highway.
05:39
Yeah, so Lana, we're down here where the cars are going opposite way.
05:46
For now,
05:48
if we can't move that car that's lugging off traffic, we're going to have to stop driving for now until the tow truck arrives.
05:55
Yeah, so we're going to have to stop traffic on 40 westbound at Franklin and also at, I believe, it's Center Street.
06:07
Green.
06:09
I may route to block off, my spot on 40 off of Franklin Street.
06:14
13, I'm actually pretty close to that.
06:16
I can block that off if you want to take the next one.
06:20
22, if you can, just advise them to make an emergency toll as possible.
06:24
The driving the vehicle also said he had a tooler rope themselves.
06:29
Acknowledged. So I got 13 and 18 blocking off at Green and Franklin and MLK and Franklin.
06:45
And 1-5. Myself and 1-6 are going to be blocking off.
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Location mentioned:
W Franklin St & Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21290
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