Possible overturned vehicle reported on highway ramp, Franklin County IL
TrafficA call reported a possible overturned vehicle or construction equipment on a highway ramp near a rest area in Franklin County, Illinois. Responders staged and searched the area but found no confirmed accident, injuries, or criminal activity. The sighting may have been a piece of construction equipment resembling an overturned vehicle.
Audio|Source: Franklin, Perry, Jackson, Williamson, and Jefferson Counties Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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I can see, be advised I can see... It's going to be approximately the 70,
00:08
probably the 78 and a half. 79.
00:11
I was like we have PD unit on scene.
00:28
Four to six-year-old female says that she doesn't feel right and she does not giving any individual symptoms. She's not feeling right.
00:46
Dispatch possible direction. I believe the unit was mobile,
00:49
was not stationary. I believe they are having trouble finding the sentient. Also, we're going to be about the 70 and a half turning around and heading back from the northbound lane back to southbound.
01:05
She said it was up on a hill and it was in a construction area. She said it possibly could have been construction equipment,
01:15
but she swore it looked like a vehicle upside-down.
01:23
Okay, copy.
01:25
I'm going to check possibly there at the Ex-A-Rand 477, the south or north about.
01:32
I believe they do have some equipment up there and they did catch my. I'll see if that's possibly a wish you might have to see it.
01:41
Okay.
01:46
Stay covered.
01:58
Do a stage up there at the top of the ramp until we find out what we've got. Where is that?
02:06
Take the road.
02:09
120, will you check on the exit ramps and entrance ramp?
02:17
I didn't see they are coming down onto the entrance.
02:29
Keep it's going to be on the ramp on the other side of the rest area there. The vehicle looks like a trencher by a construction bridge, but it looks like a vehicle outside of drive fast.
02:57
that that was going to be our incident there. That trench shirt had mentioned to the description. You want us to go ahead and stay on the overpass for now or just keep that it out.
03:08
Yeah, go ahead and get off stage there.
03:11
Let's just check the entrance ramps next to ramps. And if we see nothing, well, I'd say that's a pretty good guess. That's probably what she saw.
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Franklin County, IL
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