Auto accident causes road closures and traffic delays, Chicago IL
TrafficAn auto accident at S Kostner Ave and W 31st St caused major road closures and blocked intersections. Police managed detours and coordinated tow trucks to clear about 20 stranded vehicles. Traffic congestion and confusion occurred as some streets including 26th Street were closed to traffic. Buses were allowed through with caution.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 10
08:38
Transcript:
00:00
Whoever's at 31st and Kostner from that auto accident, are you guys sending people north towards 26th Street?
00:04
Because can you not do that because 26th Street is still closed?
00:07
10-10[1].
00:08
10-10[1].
00:09
Yeah, no, no one's letting any cars going north down on Kostner.
00:13
Okay, because 4401 said that there's a bunch of cars coming from 31st in Kostner, and they're getting to 26th in Kostner now, and they don't have nowhere to go because they can't go past 3rd.
00:25
No one is mistaken because I'm at 31st right now, no one's getting through.
00:29
It's got to be one of the other streets up north.
00:31
Yeah, 4401.
00:32
I'm just looking south.
00:33
I can't tell it at 31st, but somewhere between 26 and 31st.
00:36
So I don't know if you have anybody that way that can potentially help solve that problem.
00:40
10 David 13. 10 David 13.
00:42
Okay, the codecars are assigned to this event.
00:43
Can you send them to Ridgeway and 27th, please?
00:46
25th and Ridgeway.
00:47
27th and Ridgeway. 27th in Ridgeway.
00:48
Yeah, we'll let the event know to get the tow trucks that they have over there.
00:52
What kind of vehicle?
00:53
Yeah, one. They took there's a lot of cars with them to be towed, so we need them all here, please.
00:57
All right, turn for it.
00:58
They want to know how many cars.
01:00
I can see right now we're looking about 20.
01:03
20 cars, okay.
01:04
11.304? Oh, 26, essential.
01:05
Okay.
01:06
And 1131. 31.
01:07
31. 31. Can you guys ride together? Tom Progress, 34, 35, West End.
01:11
Bearing for two female having a family dispute.
01:13
99.
01:14
Car 44 were you coming in?
01:17
Car 44 with me.
01:19
Car 44, we can't copy.
01:20
Were you coming in? Negative.
01:23
Okay, sorry.
01:24
1022 Adams.
01:25
1022 Adams.
01:26
How do you make that a 15-15-9 squad? Just to confirm the 28th and crossers squad, there's an opening in the fence area.
01:35
Is it supposed to be open because that's where all these towers are coming from that are going towards 26-3?
01:39
No, that's not supposed to be open because that's what they were saying.
01:44
They want to make sure that's closed.
01:45
So can you close that up?
01:46
Yeah, we'll close it up, squad.
01:47
Let's open on both east and west sides.
01:51
All right, we'll put you at 28th in college.
01:55
Charlie George 1.
01:56
Charlie George 100.
01:57
Charlie George 1, Scott.
01:59
How far west is 263 closed?
02:01
We'll have 1000.
02:02
Do you know how far west is...
02:03
It's to Kostner.
02:04
Okay. Okay.
02:05
Okay. 1013. Post-26 in Central Park.
02:07
Post-26 on Central Park.
02:14
Squalcula, my sergeant on my camera dance.
02:15
What's your star number?
02:16
5720.
02:17
1007 for another notification.
02:19
I don't say when I got it.
02:20
Thank you. 1013, Marquette 1 3.
02:24
13. Commercial alarm, please, 1559, South Plasky.
02:29
1022.
02:30
1022.
02:31
Auto accident 19th in Fairfield for hit and run.
02:38
You copy?
02:42
99. 1171.
02:44
117-1. 71. 71.
02:45
You're back in 11, correct?
02:46
104. Okay,
02:47
I'm just going to drop a couple of municipalities.
02:48
Actually, it's the same.
02:49
Avers and Fulton.
02:50
1071, go ahead.
02:51
1031. 1031, go ahead.
02:52
Let whoever know that on the other side of this right act that I'm sending a couple buses through, there's no other routes for them to use, so they have to go through.
03:00
It's the time to use caution coming across.
03:02
All right, whoever's over there blocking traffic on 31st Street from that accident, he's sending a couple buses through, so just use caution because a couple of K-buses are coming through.
03:10
10.44 week,
03:11
happy. Sergeant in 10 for, I'm sorry, Sergeant 11 for a code.
03:15
I'm done. Forty!
03:16
Threatening suicide, 401, Westlake, there was a male that was feeling suicidal ambulance took into a hospital and then it checked the well-being for a person down in the alley, 4338 West Adams.
03:26
When they make removal, can I do you put to them?
03:28
9-9-9.
03:29
402 1043 1043 1042 is glad picking one mail to the district for the action happening in Hamlin in 206 last two years of basic tonight
03:41
1042, you said you're going to take...
03:43
Tell me, George, 300.
03:44
26 and Hamlin, you're taking the paper for that accident, going into 10 with 1?
03:47
Negative 5.
03:48
We just transporting 1-mail.
03:49
All right, just taking one mail into 10, 16-26.
03:54
24-6.
03:55
Car or Charlie John 100?
03:57
Charlie George 300, ma'am.
03:59
Can we get an up or down as to whether or not 26th Street at Kostner is closed to traffic because everybody's telling me it's open but everybody in a car is telling me it's closed? No, it's closed.
04:09
It's not supposed to be open.
04:10
Okay, so what is the nearest west street that is open southbound on the west side of the parade route? Ten hundred.
04:18
Ten hundred is wide.
04:21
What are we looking for over there? What's the next closest west street that cars can go to from since 26 and Kostner is closed? Where do you want them to go to get through?
04:32
Squad, we can start looking at pushing them a little further north, we're pushing west on Ogden, if that's the case.
04:39
But I will get a car over that direction now.
04:41
Also, 41st Street is open, we're on left down.
04:44
We need to know what's open north and south so people can get across 26th Street.
04:49
Come to 30th Street going west.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-10: Fight in progress
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Location mentioned:
S Kostner Ave & W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60623
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