Minor crash on I-95 in Westport with no injuries, Westport CT
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TrafficAccording to the dispatch call, a young driver was involved in a minor car accident on Interstate 95 in Westport, Connecticut. There were no injuries and the vehicle damage was minimal. The incident is seen as a learning experience about safe driving and stopping distances.
Audio|Heard on: W1EE 447.1250 MHz Stamford DMR Repeater
Listen to dispatch call
04:23
Transcript:
00:00
So I got the call this morning.
00:03
Jack has been initiated.
00:07
He's got his first MVA.
00:15
I got the initiation point.
00:18
Master's in Business Administration?
00:25
Sadly no.
00:27
A little fender bender.
00:30
I was looking in the rear of your mirror and the car in front of me stopped.
00:37
You know?
00:39
Dad was born at night but not last night.
00:47
Well, if you give me your phone, I'll have a dumper for you.
00:52
We'll find out exactly what was going on.
01:01
Yeah,
01:02
I know,
01:06
I'm sure,
01:07
you know,
01:08
you may not have been texting or actively doing any, he may just been looking,
01:12
I'm sure.
01:14
He was about to turn left to get on to 95 this morning, but it was stopped in traffic, so I don't know.
01:22
In front of them turn left and get onto the on-ramp from Sherwood Island Connector onto I-95 and stop for some reason.
01:28
Either way,
01:30
I'm not sure why you'd be looking in your rear view mirror as you're making left.
01:34
to get on the highway.
01:35
So,
01:37
I don't think that really holds water.
01:40
But it's funny, you said that.
01:41
It kind of reminded me of that movie Uncle Buck with John Candy.
01:45
Then McCaulay Calkin says, you know, they've brushed your teeth.
01:48
You can even check, they're wet.
01:49
And he goes, you know, I've got a friend down in the crime lab.
01:52
I can send you your toothbrush.
01:53
You can tell you if you actually press your teeth or if you just rins your window in the water.
02:01
Oh, you dump many a phone on a chip.
02:08
He swore he wasn't off.
02:11
And now that his father tells him, no problem, taking it back down to work.
02:16
And I've been having one of the guys dump it, so we'll know exactly what it is.
02:22
For its purposes, I want to be able to defend him.
02:26
And 99% of the time, he goes, I was on the phone.
02:36
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
02:38
Well,
02:39
like I said, luckily nobody's hurt.
02:41
The damaged the other car wasn't too bad.
02:44
It's not too bad in the grand scheme of things.
02:47
And, you know,
02:52
talk it up as a learning experience, right? Hopefully he has a better understanding of how fast things happen.
03:01
and how not quickly a car actually stops.
03:05
You know, from the time you realize you need to stop until the car actually stops, it moves a lot further than I think, you know,
03:15
as a young driver, you think it will.
03:17
So if this turns out to be a valuable learning experience and prevent something in the future, then I guess, you know,
03:27
look at live with it.
03:32
Yeah, listen, Mike, you've got a great kid there.
03:37
Everyone goes through this.
03:39
Every single kid.
03:41
I bet she doesn't, I bet she learns a lot from it.
03:44
He's not stupid, so he'll figure this out.
03:51
So,
03:52
is he have a junior operated license?
03:55
That may be, I don't know what Connecticut's like, but he has a junior operated license?
04:07
Connecticut starts with a learner permit.
04:11
But no, he's passed that.
04:12
He's got his full license.
04:15
The only restrictions he has in his first six months is he can't have any passengers other than his parents.
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Location mentioned:
I-95, Westport, CT
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