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Wrong-way driver with flat tire sparks chaos on Tacoma highwayTacoma WA

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WA-16, Tacoma, WA

Concern rises as a gold passenger car with a flat tire drives the wrong way on westbound Highway 16 near Tacoma, veering between lanes and prompting emergency response.

Audio|Source: Washington State Patrol Dispatch - Dist 1 East / West
01:35
Transcript:
00:00
Rolls on an erratic wrong way, SR 16 westbound from near 6th Avenue, a gold passenger car at a slow rate, Urquivize, and Eagle has a flat driver-side tire.
00:12
Only 7-4-n-4-n-n-4-0-5-12.
00:14
Oh,
00:15
wait 7 from North 5 and 512, 3.112.
00:21
We'll see if you're going to verify west on 16.
00:26
If you're looking at Westbound 16 believe it'd be driving eastbound in the Westbound lanes.
00:36
126 from 7.05.
00:38
One-for-3 in route from 7-05, 2112.
00:44
9-6, and a row from 7 extension.
00:49
9165, and a row from 7 extension, 2112.
00:51
The moment it's around to the wrong way.
00:53
Additional ARPiece is called in vehicle switching between lanes 1 and lane 2.
00:59
12-8-7. 12-8-7, 21-13.
01:06
What's going to be? Verified, east-bound, westbound.
01:11
Verified.
01:12
Traveling eastbound in the west-bound lanes.
01:18
4-3-2114.
01:25
I'm stopping it just east of 19, doesn't further to the mail, around the left shoulder.
01:33
243, stopping the vehicle, just east of 19.

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WA-16, Tacoma, WA

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