Blue semi truck drives wrong way at high speed on I-80, Bureau County IL


A blue semi-truck was reported driving the wrong way at high speed on interstate 80 near mile post 11. The truck was on the right shoulder traveling fast and created a hazard for other drivers. Authorities checked the area and found tire tracks but did not see the wrong way driver.
Audio|Source: Illinois State Police, IDOT, EMA and LaSalle County Sheriff
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Transcript:
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Not for. It's for New District 2, wrongway driver. IATI.D. Westbound and Eastbound lanes from mile post 11. It's for a new district 2, wrongway driver. I80 Westbound and Eastbound lanes from mile post 11, 0237. Blue truck tractor van semi-trailer. Blue truck tractor van semi-trailer. It's on the right shoulder, traveling at a high rate of speed.
00:30
Westbound in the eastbound lanes. Making them case deeply shoot two sterling case Hays and SEM-4. Setting 2.2 information. 2.22 information. spoke to a truck driver. I would have spawned at the Big X. He has not seen anybody go the wrong way. I'm at the Big X now. I'm at the Big X now. I'll check in the area.
00:59
264, clear. 264-pound four. Charles, two-fifteen from two-point-two. 15-five forty-two. Ten-one. Twenty-two. Twenty-two. I'm going to try.
01:28
74 westbound about the scales. I haven't observed anything. Did observe tire tracks across the medias from the westbound to the east bump side and I have not seen. That might go crossway.
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I-80, Illinois
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