Vehicle falls off overpass and hits tanker truck, Fairland MD
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According to the dispatch call, a vehicle, possibly a Tesla, fell off an overpass near Bridge Chaney Road, caught fire, and collided with a tanker truck. This caused a full closure of the northbound road near Old Columbia Pike and Briggs Chaney Road in Fairland, Maryland.
Audio|Heard on: Montgomery MD Transportation Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
02:12
Transcript:
00:00
Northbound Codzville is closed.
00:03
All of Briggs Chaney Road is closed, right at the bridge.
00:08
So if you're on Coseborough Road,
00:11
Columbia Pike, you are not going to get there.
00:14
You will need to go to Fairland and make a left on Fairland, go over to Old Columbia Pike,
00:21
pass Bridge Chaney and go up to Greencastle Road.
00:27
and come back around Robbie.
00:30
There is no way to go northbound.
00:32
Northbound Coastville is closed, then for?
00:35
Sure,
00:36
I don't see anything close.
00:38
I'm sorry. Say again?
00:40
I say, I don't see anything close.
00:43
All right, where are you right now?
00:51
I just passed, (name withheld).
00:53
All right, you'll see it once you cross 200.
00:56
Once you cross over 200, you'll see it.
01:00
It looks like a Tesla or something fell off the overpass and burst into flames, hitting a tanker truck, some kind of stuff like that.
01:12
Okay,
01:14
hold on, I'll let you know.
01:16
Okay, Kurt.
01:19
Yeah, it's just going to be the buses heading south, but everything else is fine.
01:24
Hold on. All right, 10-4.
01:25
You just wait a second.
01:27
All right, mobile five.
01:28
Say again, please.
01:30
You do have access to go to Bridge Chaney? Yeah, I'm trying, it's like when the buses are leaving.
01:38
It's right here.
01:39
They've got a truck and everything that's on the scene.
01:43
So I say a metro bus.
01:45
He can't go nowhere.
01:46
But I don't see any of our buses.
01:48
No, I had them turn around and go back to the parking ride.
01:55
But I wanted them to make a right on Robbie, take Robbie to Greencastle left to 29 south.
02:05
29 south is open.
02:08
There's at least one short bus up there we can use to make a trip.
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Location mentioned:
Old Columbia Pike & Briggs Chaney Rd, Fairland, MD 20866
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