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Driver flees scene after vehicle found empty on I-270Columbus OH

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Near E Main St i, Columbus, OH 43215

A vehicle was found empty on I-270 northbound near Main Street exit. The driver fled and was later found in the nearby neighborhood on Karen Way wearing a fluorescent shirt and shorts.

Audio|Source: Columbus Police Zone 2 East Side
05:48
Transcript:
00:00
Presby four compas.
00:06
Ready forgo.
00:08
Can you check with CPD, see if they have any updates on which direction on 270? Check for updates.
00:19
One for one.
00:24
One for one.
00:30
It looks like it was Sousay Northbound just south of the Main Street exit.
00:36
So we're about to slip around here to get some of it.
00:39
Okay.
00:45
Almost fired a rescue for CPD is unable to give any more accurate information.
00:51
That's all they've got on it so far.
00:53
Unknown what direction for sure.
00:56
Okay.
01:02
TMS 16 they said that it sounded like it's northbound just past the Main Street exit so I haven't had anything yet but that's what this happened.
01:13
Master received, the MS-16.
01:19
169.
01:21
Good. Good.
01:27
He relaying with Langhazard, down at the MAPCO, on 33.
01:33
Columbus prior to the company's responding on, like you said he's northbound.
01:37
It is going to be northbound south of Main Street.
01:41
You said Mocko.
01:43
Yeah, you can make it 33 and can pass.
01:47
6-37, I'll be looking.
01:53
6-06.
01:55
Go ahead.
02:00
Did you have CSD interrupt with us? A-Firm.
02:07
Okay, I'm here, the car is empty.
02:10
There's no signs of anybody around.
02:13
You can cancel CFD for now.
02:16
Crack it out, I'm not...
02:18
The MS-16, right direct, I'll pass it on.
02:20
Thank you, sir.
02:23
Can you add tag King, Robert, Queen, 9203, please? Copy.
02:29
U.S. 16, all companies on 270 northbound, you can all cancel.
02:35
GFC says, or the CPD cars empty.
02:43
Attention, all companies responding to ICSI-Northbound, My Market 41.
02:48
All companies cancels for CPD.
02:51
The vehicle is empty.
02:57
4 Columbus.
03:00
Rescue 4-go.
03:05
Oh,
03:07
we found the driver.
03:08
We're working on an address for you right now.
03:10
They're north of the scene on Karen Way, if you'll let CPD know.
03:17
North of the scene on Karen Way? Do you have any kind of description?
03:23
Yeah, fluorescent shirt and shorts.
03:32
It was probably a rescue forward.
03:33
Was that northbound he was running?
03:39
He was just north of the scene between the houses that would be right adjoining 270 along that street.
03:54
That'd be each side, I think.
03:55
Rescue 4, is that the east side of the freeway then?
04:01
That's perfect.
04:03
606. In Carson, that's high on C-70B buys.
04:07
Fires calling over saying the mail is running away northbound and a fluorescent shirt and shorts.
04:14
One company business.
04:16
Forrest, U4, I got CPD on the line.
04:18
They want to know if they're on the east side.
04:21
The grass area between the houses and the freeway, on the east side of the freeway, on the east side of the northbound lanes.
04:27
Do they say northbound where?
04:30
It says it's down by the east side of the freeway by the houses.
04:35
The gentleman was out of the median into the neighborhood that backed up to 270 on the east side of 270.
04:46
1240.
04:51
Rescue 4 do you have to know any of the street and a street name possibly?
04:58
Karen Way, sir.
05:02
Karen Way, message to receive Rescue 4.
05:09
Rescue 4, CPD wants to know, is it closer to Maine or to Broad?
05:19
90. It would be just south of Maine.
05:21
If you look on your map where it shows the location of that incident, it would be immediately to the east of that on Karen Way.
05:32
98. Spot 1 to the Jack.
05:35
90, I copy.
05:41
Additional in that mail running way.
05:43
They're saying the mail is in the neighborhood east of the freeway.
05:47
Possibly Karen way.

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