Driver passes out, crashes vehicle and damages power pole, Elkhart IN
TrafficA driver passed out while driving near Co Rd 12 in Elkhart, Indiana, then crashed into a tree and split a power pole, causing wires to come down. The driver is now conscious and alert. There was damage to property, including a destroyed grave marker at a nearby church graveyard, but no injuries were reported.
Audio|Source: Elkhart, Goshen & Elkhart County Police, Fire & EMS
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Transcript:
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Two-septu-Septics continue, a subject advice he had passed out while driving.
00:08
Ten-four.
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He's conscious and alert now.
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Ten-four.
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Okay, I'm making 21. Two-one.
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Two-one. Twenty-one. Twenty-one drive, that you change.
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Seven.
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He's a little crack around.
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Ten,
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four, he's currently ten-six.
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Four, all-cart units, ten-four.
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Ten-four.
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Ten-four.
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Pull into a tree.
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Looks like you do have a power pole split in half and wires down.
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Stand by for a poll number.
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10.4.
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492 will be on C dispatch 4 or 4.5 a man.
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10.4.
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Dispatch 429. I have a poll number.
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Go ahead.
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3-722. If you can have AEP or Nesco, whoever these belong to, en route.
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This is going to be AEP poll number E186-1-2. This poll is going to be on the north side of the street across from the incident.
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10-4[1].
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10-4[1]. Was the first character in E as in Edward?
01:58
Correct.
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10-4[1].
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Dispatch item 272, can you advise if any of the polar lines are in the roadway?
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24-603L cart 10-4[1].
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They are not in the roadway but the pole is dangling by the lines.
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That won't be on.
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104. 104.
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492.
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404 dispatch, give me a fire ground, please.
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404, fire ground 1.
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Fireground 1. Fire ground 1.
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This batch, 121.
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121.
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534, all cart, 104.
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7.4.
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141's, clear a hospital, return to service.
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10.4.
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104.
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I'm not a 109.5. We need a text post and transport when one's available.
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10472, you'll be 1076 shortly.
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If we're also in the last three, triple I on the mail.
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Number 7-007.
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Sorry,
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you can turn on last eight.
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Number seven, zero-seven.
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Okay, for...
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Adam 272 to Sush.
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Item 272.
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East East can get a hold of a representative for California Road Missionary Church.
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Their graveyard across the street, one of the grave markers was destroyed.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation that a message was received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
Near Co Rd 12, Elkhart, IN 46514
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