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Traffic diverted from I-71 northbound due to crash 

audio iconTraffic, Road Closure
E 17th Ave, Columbus, OH
The police are diverting all traffic from I-71 northbound to I-670 because of a crash near 17th Avenue in Columbus. They are blocking several ramps to manage the traffic.
Audio|Source: Columbus Police Dispatch - Citywide
04:5

Transcript:
Okay, we're gonna be making us a turk. Let's get traffic one set up and monitored. Let's send that information off the Zone 5 if they're down there helping us. Hi, copy. In what directional are we needing them? Just northbound. We are diverting 71 northbound to 670. color again. If you update my location, I'll be blocked. 9050 you cut out. I'll be blocking the 11th Avenue to 71 Northbound Ram. Copy. 42. 40. 40. 16, Ohio State are in 2060, North High. Send there's homeless male (name withheld), white shirt, black shorts, sleeping in front of the man door, security wants them removed, and weapons. Forty-five. What's your color? radio to any officer on the five here for us, I mean zone five, they need to know exactly which lane you guys want them to start it at to shut down. That's 96. We the entire 71 north mainline pushed on to 670. Nothing going north on the 71. Oh, he was outside of that L. He wasn't inside. Copy. Copy. Copy. I mean, Flore Victor. I copy. Carl E. Claude, Claude. Thank you. All right, sir. Channel 6 has a situation out on the freeway. It's turned into a turt. Freeway's asking for a car to start northbound on 71. I believe you're going to push everybody from 70. northbound on to 670. If you could start traveling that way, it looks like the crash happened by 17s, but they need everything shut down and pushed on to 670. I appreciate you. Thanks, sir. Again, they're going to make it a turk, so if you want to monitor Channel 6 there to see when they flip over it. Not monitors yet. We have cars air off or what exits they are blocking and then we'll go from there. Perfect. So Zero, we are blocking the 5th F.5th Avenue ramp of the 701 court. Okay, I copy, someone else. Myself in 73 are blocking the 71 North ramp from 670 West. Copy. Hi, three, I have 71 North blocked at 17th.

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E 17th Ave, Columbus, OH

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