Animal struck on highway causes traffic backup, Carnesville GA
TrafficTraffic on Highway 441 near Carnesville, Georgia, was heavily delayed in both directions because an animal was hit and remained on the road. Police arrived to manage the situation and efforts were made to clear the roadway. Drivers reported backups and slowdowns due to the incident and rubbernecking.
Audio|Source: Northeast Georgia Amateur Radio Repeaters
02:52
Transcript:
00:00
I'm just now starting to get into downtown. Get down here.
00:05
Man,
00:07
construction everywhere, buddy.
00:09
I heard the wreck.
00:10
That must have happened just shortly.
00:13
It was fine when I went through.
00:19
My wife just called me and said, don't go that way, but I'm going to cut through on (number withheld) back over there, like Fowler Drive, back to come back in that way.
00:34
Everybody just probably got in a big hurry and didn't pay attention.
00:39
And ended up, uh,
00:41
we're ending right there.
00:45
It was a dog, K-E4 JL or an animal.
00:55
Monkey, people get all upset when you shoot a monkey.
01:03
No telling Bob, but a long time no talk to.
01:09
Yeah, I heard it on the radio this morning, they said that somebody hit an animal.
01:14
They were having to get it off the road, so it must have been a fairly sizable one. Chris, go ahead.
01:27
George.
01:29
Easy 4GRK. Pulling to my wife, it's backed up on both sides of the loop.
01:35
And the cops were just mad of getting there.
01:42
Well,
01:45
half of that's probably just because people not paying attention and having to do rubbernecking.
01:55
That's one of those rubber heckers rear-in is somebody.
02:00
Well,
02:01
I'm sure it's backed up on 441 southbound. Well, both lanes, cousin.
02:06
Now this was about, oh, almost an hour ago when I heard this,
02:12
well, not quite, maybe 45 minutes ago,
02:15
but they said they were trying to remove an animal from the roadway, so something else may have happened in the interim.
02:27
I must have because my wife just went by there.
02:30
I'd say the odds are it might be a deer if it's animal involved. I've seen a lot of doze on the side roads been hit here lately.
02:43
Now they have both directions may have been a couple.
02:49
I've been seeing them in packs of three or four lately.
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US-441, Georgia
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