Vehicle drives wrong way on highway at night, police respond, Melbourne FL


A vehicle was driving the wrong way on a highway at night with its lights off. Police and highway patrol units are trying to find and stop the vehicle.
Audio|Source: Brevard County Sheriff - West, Cocoa and Rockledge Police
02:48
Transcript:
00:00
51 to 405[2], you run around a corner. No. Any of they can break from the Walmart, got a reckless driving, Marker 186 southbound looks like it's a wrong way driver if HP is trying to catch up to the vehicle.
00:27
Vehicle driving the wrong way, lights off on a known vehicle description, vehicles driving northbound. FHP is 1018[3] towards the vehicle. 405[2] verbal blackmail. I'm 51 of that. 43[1] Central. 44-51.
00:51
but going northbound. All right, let's try to get a unit going the right way, trying to get eyes on it first, and then we'll have another unit or two stage on the exits of 95.
01:06
I need a southbound about five minutes ago. And FHP said they're still trying to catch up to it and they're going to call back if they've got anything or not. Town four. I see a bunch of units right there at Wickham in 95. Let's get a couple of them going south to start looking for it. Let's get one.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
43: Information
[2]
405: Possibly unit identifier or subject reference
[3]
1018: Responding with lights/sirens (urgent)
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Location mentioned:
Near N Wickham Rd, Melbourne, FL 32935
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