Wide load blocks traffic on southbound US 31 at construction, Grant County IN


A wide load vehicle is stopped at a construction zone on southbound US 31 near Logansport Road, unable to pass through, causing a traffic backup of about a mile. Authorities have closed southbound ramps at Highway 24 to divert traffic and manage the blockage.
Audio|Source: Grant County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Traffic hazards in the southbound U.S.
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31 at Wilkinsport Road.
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The construction, a wide load has stopped at the construction will not fit through.
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Traffic's backed up.
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Units, special attention, Miami County,
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traffic hazard, southbound US 31 in Logansport Road.
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Southbound US 31 and Logan's Port Road at the construction.
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Wide load can't fit through.
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Stopped. Authority Miami County, 1140.
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3.16.1 and 2 are in Rockford Post.
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Do you have anybody else out?
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East and 6th Street.
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We're on a blue fort.
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You see one.
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Blue Kia Optima, 28th, and Guy We Trust, David Boy Charles, 539.
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He wants to speak with an officer in regards to management, just walking into her room while she's there with her children, stated she had the Do Not Disturb sign-up, and they advised that it didn't matter.
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They can do what they want.
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Clear. Units in route to the hazard.
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US 31 Logan's Port, they advised the backup is about a mile long.
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1621, you shut them off at 24.
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No, very no, I'm up.
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Set them off the Durant, I'll force them.
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Three, one, one.
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One, one. As I can, I'll be out on foot, I'll have portable, and I'll walk up to where he's stuck.
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One one.
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Purpose, maybe Central.
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Purpose. I pay CMA as soon as they respond, if your units can respond where they what traffic shut down at.
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Southbound ramp shut off on 24.
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They also had to shut off.
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Logansport Road, or check,
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400 West, so they're not going down the division.
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We'll need both southbound ramp shut off at some point.
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