Tractor trailer and car crash causes fire on Highway 64, Wake County NC


A tractor trailer and a car crashed on Highway 64 in Wake County, North Carolina. The crash caused fuel to leak from the tractor trailer, both vehicles to smoke, and the car to catch fire. Emergency crews responded and started putting out the fire. The tractor trailer blocked the westbound lanes. The tractor trailer driver refused medical help. Other people involved were located further up the road.
Audio|Source: Wake County Fire
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Transcript:
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To the vehicle accident, you're going to have a tractor trailer versus a vehicle.
00:04
The caller is advising that the tractor trailing is losing lots of fuel.
00:08
Both vehicles are smoking.
00:09
Maddie won't come.
00:10
We'll have a copy.
00:11
That's showing.
00:12
One-Eleven is arriving eastbound.
00:14
I have a vehicle on the eastbound shoulder, on fire.
00:17
We'll be stopping off the fire attack.
00:19
911 to 1111.
00:20
If y'all handle that, we'll handle this side.
00:21
We're on the westbound side.
00:22
We've got a tractor trailer completely blocking westbound 64.
00:24
Command is to command.
00:26
Go ahead for command.
00:32
Command. Go ahead for command. Up on the eastbound side next week.
00:35
Are, would you like to proceed and flip around to the westbound or do you want to stand the eastbound for now?
00:40
Just stay eastbound for now.
00:41
Looks like we got the tractor trailer over here with us and Windows's got a passenger car with them with a working fire.
00:47
So let's figure out what we got.
00:48
Time forth. The car is empty.
00:50
Wendell, you got some subjects up the road just east of y'all.
00:55
We're going to try to make it across and make contact with them.
00:57
EMS, the tractor-trailer driver over here in the westbound side, advise that he does not need EMS.
01:01
Man, just because it's a tractor-trailer driver in the field up.
01:05
negative. He does not need EMS.
01:07
UMS. UMS 62.
01:08
The people in front of us were flagging us down, they say the drivers up the road in front of them to either 111.
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US-64, North Carolina
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