Truck Hits Cow Blocking Hwy 67 Near Six Mile Rd, Somerville AL
TrafficA truck struck a cow on Highway 67 South near Six Mile Road, leaving the animal injured and blocking a lane of traffic. The truck driver stopped near Brewer High. The cow was still alive and noisy in the roadway. Officials are considering options, including waiting for the owner or a veterinarian to attend to the cow.
Audio|Source: Decatur and Morgan County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Since the Charlie 6-8, we got a wreck.
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Highway 67 South, that's call a road.
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Car versus Cal.
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There's lane block as we're contacting state. It's gonna be around Six Mile Road.
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Sample. One-around.
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Copy.
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Delta 65, I'll be around.
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B6-5. 6-7, same traffic.
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Copy.
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Senator Spotted Units, we've just been advised that it was an 18-wheeler that hit the cow, and he is not on scene, but the cow is left, or what's left of it, in the road.
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10-quarter if you look in the last log,
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around that area,
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sleep with my contact with somebody.
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Playwrights and cows.
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Kind of it.
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Basic to a Tating Fall of Alpha. Basic 218, Fall of Alpha.
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Three-Huelson Street Department 20-7, it's going to be Summer Manor,
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70-year-old mills falling down.
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Page 13 copies and route.
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Copy and route. Responding to fall off the Summer Manor apartment 207.
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A seven-year-old male who's falling down.
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There's a minor injury.
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No bleeding. He's still on the ground.
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Summer Manor 207.
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There was fun of use to the cow call.
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The truck driver did stop, apparently,
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at Brewer High,
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were calling to stay.
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Very four.
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Senator to Charlie 6-8, when y'all don't actually find the deceased,
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a sudden get a better location. Let me know, because I've got like three options and I don't want to call them to wake people up, no one if I'm close.
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There is running units, apparently the cow is not dead, it's bellowing and bawling out in the road.
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We've had somebody offered to shoot it, but we can't tell them to do that. We'll wait, let you make that command decision.
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Temple.
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Just that's watch for up. Swap over this thing.
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Can you repeat?
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Go ahead.
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I believe the location that's where the cows at, it's... I believe the gentleman's going to own it over there by Point Henry Road.
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I don't want to do that yet because the cow could potentially be saved by a vet.
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A gentleman knows one that could come out at this late at night, so I'm going to leave it up for the owner.
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If he wants to handle it that way with the cows.
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I got a Bentley subject at Six Mile Road and Hoyt Henry, and I've also got a Wigington subject at 67 at 6-mile.
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Try to avoid Henry first.
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Okay.
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Are you boys out there yet?
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Not yet. I'm coming to the floor.
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Copy. We also call Florence Indicator pre-propost.
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Somebody didn't do something with their phones because we got no answer.
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Location mentioned:
AL-67 & Six Mile Rd, Somerville, AL 35670
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