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Chicago, IL

Tree falls on vehicles near Garfield and Carpenter 

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S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60643
A tree unexpectedly fell and struck two vehicles on the road near Garfield and Carpenter. Initial reports mistakenly described the event as a car accident, but it was confirmed that the vehicles were hit by the fallen tree.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 06
04:54

Transcript:
When you guys are up and rolling again from lunch, I have an auto accident on the beat Garfield and... I forgot. It's a Garfield and Carpenter. I have 734 doing some traffic control over there for you at 935, but if you guys can take paper on that. 935 is over there as well. 834, Judge Renzo. 334. All right, I guess your caller is walking down 87 towards his row. If he was trying to leave, he's trying to hold him down, he's been drinking, he had a couple shots. He's wearing no shirt and green shorts if you happen to see him. If the plate hasn't been dropped on the doctor, could you drop it in there? It's going to be (number withheld). Can you help us out? The previous burglary has this address, 05 August of last year. See if we have any phone numbers attached to that call. actually only go back 90 days. Never mind. And it looks like the numbers that we have for the manager or for the store. Which is closed? 734. 734. corner of the vehicle, the field, the tree fell as he was driving. That's unfortunate. So he was driving and the tree fell on him? Unprovoked? Yeah, he fell on two vehicles. He fell on, I actually have the other vehicle. It's (number withheld). Can you help us out? Is that a specialty plate of some sort? It's just a regular area, Indiana play. It's (number withheld). Is that a white angriac? It's an Baltimore. Yeah, my partner got it. Okay. Parpenter, one of the callers said that a SUV crashed into parked vehicles and into a tree. 801. Is 832 on anything? Nope. Can you have a home in and see me? A3-2-2-1. A3-2-4. 712. Yeah, so the vehicle, it didn't crash into a car, a tree fell, and he crashed into the tree when it fell. Okay, so the tree fell, and then he crashed into the tree when the tree fell? So, like, it kind of, like, fell in front of this? 734. Yeah, so the tree fell on the two vehicles, the two vehicles never connected. All right, 104. It's not a car, it's not an accident. It's Mother Nature broke a tree and they crashed into the tree, the tree crash into them. Got it. 104. 702, Sam.

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S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60643
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