Multiple vehicles off road due to large plastic debris hazard, Rock Cave WV


A large piece of plastic debris about six feet wide and six inches tall was in the roadway on I-79 southbound near Jane Lew exit. Multiple vehicles went off the road near the IGA on Rock Cave Road. One vehicle had heavy front-end damage, another hit a bank, and a third went off the route. At least one person is injured reporting head and neck pain.
Audio|Source: Upshur County Police, Fire and EMS
02:49
Transcript:
00:00
Can you respond to 79 Southbound just before the Jane Lou exit for a traffic hazard?
00:06
I was just there three months ago.
00:09
What's the traffic hazard?
00:10
A guy said it was about 60, plastic, about 6 inches tall in the middle of the road west.
00:17
Tin on it.
00:18
No subject that I spoke to said it was a piece of plastic about six feet wide, six inches tall in the roadway.
00:27
Okay, I'm running back up there.
00:28
Hill.
00:29
You have a patient count.
00:30
I do not. We got a report of one patient injured.
00:34
I'm sure how many patients in total are involved.
00:36
Okay.
00:37
772-O-Shay-responding timeout 0556 responding IGA there on Rock Cave Road.
00:43
I have a national reporter two vehicle NBC, however first responder, 1455-1-Z-to-5-253 vehicles involved.
00:50
One patient complaining of head and neck injury.
00:53
I'm sure how many patients total involved.
00:55
I received.
00:56
1450 on scene, 0.556.
00:58
Would you like us to continue staging Station 3?
01:00
Negative. Press key 14.2.
01:02
Station 3. Station 3.
01:03
Station 3, Firefighters, you can cancel your response.
01:05
Authority, 1450 on scene.
01:07
Our gas station will walk up.
01:08
Tap for you.
01:09
Go on above the wreck here.
01:11
See that stuff or else? There anything else.
01:13
We have three vehicles off the road, one's in the parking lot, an IGA, heavy front-end damage.
01:22
We've got one into the bank and one off the other route.
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Location mentioned:
Near Rock Cave Rd, Rock Cave, WV 26234
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