Transcript from 911 call by witness to priest's car crash
11:31 AM PDT on Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Dispatch: 911, do you need police, fire or medical?
Audio: 9-1-1 call: Eyewitness describes crash
Caller: Police.
Dispatch: What’s the problem?
Caller: I want to report an accident on Highway 26.
Dispatch: Milepost?
Caller: It’s about a quarter mile west of milepost 26. On the north side of the highway.
Dispatch: Do you know if anyone’s hurt?
Caller: I don’t know, I saw a car just drive straight off the road into the brush.
Dispatch: Quarter mile west of 26?
Caller: Uh huh, they’re on the north, they were headed east and they veered across the oncoming lane.
Dispatch: Did you see this happen?
Caller: Yeah.
Dispatch: One car only?
Caller: One car only, they were headed eastbound.
Dispatch: Did they go off the road or hit a car?
Caller: You can’t even see them from the roadway.
Dispatch: Do you know what kind of vehicle it was?
Caller: It was a compact red, I’m not sure, some sort of a compact import red.
Dispatch: You don’t know if anybody’s hurt?
Caller: No, I just went as fast as I could to get to a phone.
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