truck spills sand on i-70 eastbound near ward road, Wheat Ridge CO
TrafficA truck spilled a large amount of sand across all lanes of I-70 eastbound near Ward Road. This caused lane closures and required cleanup by transportation and safety crews.
Audio|Source: Front Range - CDOT Safety Patrol and Traffic Management Teams
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Transcript:
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137 You can notify Wheatledge PD to the CMV that locks all this is probably 200 yards deep to where I'm located
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RQ6, R2 direction.
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Go ahead.
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When you get on scene, if you could take Lane 2 for the time being, and I'm going to try to push everybody off onto the 266 lamp.
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My copy. Lane 2.
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Any five-married supervisor, R27 on Highway 5?
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Go over R2, R27.
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R27? It's not gravel, it's going to be a large amount of sand.
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And can you have a five-married supervisor, give me a call?
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Give me five Mary supervisors to Golden on the State Highway Fox.
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Contact 1247.
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Golden, this is...
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This is... Colton, this is by John 4.
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What can I help you with on that Mary call?
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Five John Ford, we were needing one of the five Mary supervisors to get in touch with RT7.
01:46
Looks like a truck lost a load of peak gravel.
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I'm 70 Eastbound right around Ward Road, sir, in all lanes.
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Copy that one, let me see what I can do for you.
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That's a copy, my friend.
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It is 1247.
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Okay,
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17, start making you Mary.
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Go for seven.
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R27.
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RG7, go ahead.
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I'm going to turn around at 30 seconds.
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I'll be down there momentarily.
02:23
Okay, I don't know if it's something you can push.
02:25
It appears to be sand.
02:28
I don't know if we just wait and push that or if we need to get a street sweeper out to start sucking up the sand.
02:35
Can you show me out North Sonic 25 north of Alameda? Block in this continuous lane, got two vehicles.
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148.
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RT7-580, Mary.
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RT7. RT7.
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How thick is it?
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They're pretty deep?
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I'll say it's a little white layer of sand, it's not super thick.
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Contact push it at first, if it ain't moving in, it can't hold off to get a room after it.
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Okay, and I have two other RTs in route.
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I was going to divert everybody on the Ward Road, that way we can just hit it all at once.
03:32
And copy,
03:33
is there a way we can push it through the left?
03:38
We can try to push it into the median.
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I'm right next to the ramp toward.
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Copy.
03:51
If we can, we need to try to get over that median.
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And that way, we're not spreading it clear across that ramp.
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Ward Rd, Wheat Ridge, CO
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