Dump truck overturned on Refugee Road after leaving freeway, Columbus OH
TrafficA dump truck overturned after leaving the I-270 southbound construction area and landed on Refugee Road, blocking lanes. The truck's front axle detached and debris scattered on the road. Emergency crews shut down parts of Refugee Road and Hamilton Road to clear the site. The driver was reported stable with no serious injuries.
Audio|Source: Columbus Police Dispatch - Citywide
04:29
Transcript:
00:00
Well, we need the westbound lane shut off of Hamilton.
00:04
Chopper is fire on scene?
00:06
Fire is on scene.
00:08
It looks like there is one of the axles off the truck laying in the right-hand eastbound lane of Refugee Road.
00:20
And fire's got eastbound refugees shut off right there at 270.
00:26
630 is any of the truck still up on 270? No,
00:30
nothing's on 270.
00:31
Chopper, it looks like the truck was not on 270, it looks like it drove off between the two lanes.
00:42
Like maybe they were backing up to get loaded or something and it just slipped and went over the bank down onto refugees.
00:52
And yeah, it looks like it's missing its front axle.
00:55
It's laying in the westbound lanes.
00:57
9091. It did come from the freeway.
00:59
It was in the construction area, 270 southbound on the northbound side.
01:05
159.
01:06
Do you have any other cars that can help out with shutting down refugee road?
01:09
603 channel 2 6.03.
01:12
6.3. Go,
01:13
Sam, have all the channels here for motors.
01:15
CCU to come over.
01:16
Sit down westbound Hamilton.
01:17
A refugee in Hamilton and then eastbound.
01:20
They'll probably have to be back in court right.
01:21
6-4-1. 6-1.
01:22
Hey, good afternoon.
01:24
Second of all, you want to get a hold of 630 and 633.
01:26
They're heading over to an overturned dumb truck.
01:28
It was 270 southbound.
01:29
It ran off of the freeway and actually overturned on refugee road.
01:35
They're shutting down refugee.
01:36
Patrol's out, they're helping shutting refugee down.
01:38
They may or may not need you.
01:39
So if you want to just kind of give you heads up.
01:42
Yeah, I'm monitoring on FSP that is down on Refugee.
01:46
Just not going to be able to handle it, but I'll, yeah, I'm on there.
01:48
Now, we're ready, so good.
01:49
630, go ahead.
01:50
Hey, can you come down to 70 southbound, go through the construction detour where it goes to the Morpound side and maybe shut that off in case we need it?
02:03
Okay, 633 might be explosion.
02:05
I'm on the west side, 70 is found at Brock now.
02:09
It's just going to take me, okay?
02:10
3-3 is on scene.
02:11
Okay, 270 southbound, get into the construction detour, and is it, I'm assuming it's a crossover?
02:17
Yeah, over top of a refugee.
02:19
The crossover is going to be north of Hamilton, just south of 70.
02:23
Okay, what do you want me to do with the crossover?
02:25
633 to 630 I'll loop around I'll take care of it it's the counterflow lanes I'll just shut it off okay
02:32
we have a condition on the driveway yet everybody stable
02:38
Copy everyone's stable.
02:39
In 142, the dump truck driver is stable.
02:42
No, nobody serious.
02:43
90142, copy.
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Refugee Rd, Columbus, OH
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