Large object falls from truck then vehicle hits ditch, Upshur County WV
TrafficA large metal object fell from a truck onto the right lane near Walmart toward Elkins. Police coordinated recovery and traffic control. Later, officers responded to a single-vehicle crash into a ditch near Campbell's store on Route 19 with no injuries reported.
Audio|Source: Upshur County Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Where that fell out of the bed of his truck.
00:02
It's now in the right lane of traffic coming from Walmart towards Elkins, about half a mile.
00:07
They're enforcers on the team there to try to recover it.
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Negative.
00:16
Okay, public service them back, tell him to go return.
00:19
You're going to need to get that picked up.
00:21
I can try to walk some traffic for him.
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Negative, sir.
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My caller was a third party.
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Okay, ten four.
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One zero four ran upcom.
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When I came through about 15 minutes ago,
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there was a male individual stop right across from the steakhouse on the five-ling loading a big metal square up, but he was facing towards McDonald's.
00:51
My caller advised is just going to be about half a mile from Walmart towards Elkins coming out of the car rental place.
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San for as soon as the subject left the area,
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he was advising that he went about 20 feet out of the turn and it just flit off.
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It wasn't secured.
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There's nothing pending, unit 7.
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Okay.
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Uh, for a minute. Before,
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we're going to head that way in case of the assistance.
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That work.
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And all,
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you and six, Scott.
02:18
Ten, four, have you been notified of an MBA out here by Campbell's on T19,
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Bill Campbell's or whatever's called?
02:32
Here you're talking about right there just passing the Gilman area?
02:38
It's in four, it's a single vehicle NVA into the ditch.
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My only concerns oncoming traffic, I don't see any property damage passing by.
02:47
Okay, and Ford, that's going to be right there told a bunch of store, correct?
02:52
Yeah, there you go, right before we get the cemetery.
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Ten, four.
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There's a snowplow headed right towards you.
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Nine, right on film.
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Nine, go ahead.
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It references NPA that's out here.
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We've got an individual here that's going to try to pull the individual out of the ditch.
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There's negative injuries, anything like that.
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Stand by for anything further.
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I'll see if they can get them out of the ditch.
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