Driver reports heart attack while driving on Interstate 80, Lincoln NE

Medical Emergency

Reported: 11/6/2025 07:08 PM

I-80, Lincoln, NE

A driver traveling westbound on Interstate 80 near the Waverly scale reported experiencing a possible heart attack while driving. Emergency services, including Lincoln Fire and Rescue, were dispatched. The vehicle, a black Ford Fusion, stopped near mile marker 415. The driver was awake, alert, and standing outside the vehicle when aid arrived.

Audio|Source: Nebraska State Patrol - Troop H & A

04:9

Transcript:

00:00

I'm gonna be en route the Waverly scale.

00:04

Sounds like a driver's possibly having a heart attack.

00:08

LFR has been dispatched.

00:13

21-8.

00:16

2-49, I can say, driver. 2.409, I can say, driver.

00:19

21, 8.

00:24

6.4 is that east or westbound?

00:29

I'm not sure.

00:30

I believe it was westbound, but I could be wrong.

00:37

Go ahead.

00:39

Advise with Lincoln 104 to contact LFR for more details.

00:45

104. 21 jane.

00:48

249.

00:49

249.

00:51

249.

00:55

Good.

00:57

The highway 6 are the 80 scales?

01:01

Um,

01:02

I believe it's the 80 scales, the critical plan.

01:07

Okay.

01:12

Go ahead.

01:15

Tass County is currently still on PBX with RP.

01:19

It was a semi going westbound.

01:23

He's at the 415 currently going westbound.

01:28

So far, I'm taking you stop now.

01:32

No, no, driver's still driving westbound.

01:37

10-4[1]. So it's a reporting party advising the driver is having a heart attack?

01:43

The RP is the driver.

01:46

Stand by for more.

01:47

I'm still in Vied at Calf County.

01:50

104. Can we tell him to pull over?

01:57

104.

02:06

Cass County advised correction to vehicle description.

02:09

It's going to be a black Ford Fusion, currently stopped at the 415.

02:14

I said.

02:17

Number.

02:19

Super right.

02:21

213. 2013.

02:27

2.49, like a good.

02:30

Good, 2.4197, 415 over 0, inside, median.

02:42

U2104, calling Sonars County emergency on E-truck call.

02:50

Connors County, the U10 Fire, you're clear.

02:57

Understood.

03:04

249, Lincoln.

03:06

249. 249.

03:08

I was a 23-23-year-old male currently awake oriented and talking.

03:16

215. 215. 215.

03:23

10105 to Fonders County 911 Center on H.R. call.

03:27

call.

03:33

Six holdings.

03:34

Two,

03:37

four. All the other units can downgrade or 1022 for now, he's alert and he's standing outside the vehicle.

03:50

216.

03:56

3864. Do you want gun some units for 1049 and since South Farr is going to shut down the inside line when they show up?

04:07

Yeah, that wouldn't hurt.

04:08

Good idea.

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