What 911 callers say happened in deadly motorcycle crash involving police officer
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile County Communications Department has released multiple 911 call transcripts regarding a Mobile Police officer allegedly hitting a motorcyclist and leaving the scene.
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The crash occurred Friday night at the intersection of Cody Road and Zeigler Boulevard. The motorcyclist and the officer were both taken to a local hospital, where the motorcyclist, later identified as 67-year-old Robert Sayen died.
News 5 had a crew on the scene after the crash and got some video of the scene.
Multiple citizens called 911 when the crash occurred, with some of them claiming that the driver of the car left the scene.
There are discrepancies in the calls, including one person claiming the car involved was a blue Ford car with another claiming it was an officer. Another discrepancy in the transcripts involves the gender of the motorcyclist.
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Here are some of the transcripts.
911: Mobile 9-1-1 what is the address of your emergency?
Caller: Um, Cody—Cody Road and um, Zeigler Boulevard. The intersection.
911: Ok—
Caller: Please there’s been a bad motorcycle accident. Please, this man got knocked off his motorcycle.
911: What was the color of the other car that—
Caller: Uh I don’t— I think they kept going. I don’t even see them.
911: Mobile 9-1-1, what is the address of your emergency?
Caller: It’s on Cody and Zeigler, at the red light. There’s a motorcycle that’s been hit. The man that’s hit is down.
911: Ok, stay on the line. *Silence* What color are the vehicles involved?
Caller: Uh, I’m not sure… It looks like a blue little Ford car. Um…
911: Mobile 9-1-1, what is the address of the emergency?
Caller: Yes, I’m on the corner of Cody and Zeigler. I just saw a police officer in a van, uh a truck, hit a motorcycle and kept going. He hit this man and kept going. Right in front of us, it’s a bunch of people out here. He—
911: You said he’s in a white truck?
Caller: He was in a white truck, yes he was.
911: Does the motorcycle—does the guy on the motorcycle need medical?
Caller: I don’t know if he’s even alive! Yes, please send somebody, please!
911: Mobile 9-1-1, what is the address of the emergency?
Caller: *Yelling heard* Hello?
911: Hello.
Caller: Hey, can we get some help right here at Cody Road please?
911: Cody and where? Tell me where you are.
Caller: Um… I wanna say Cody and Zeigler. They just hit the um, the motorcycle man or lady—I
don’t know who—I’m not sure who it is. But the officer has him down there but they’re on the side of the road. And I *Unintelligible*
911: Ok, are you talking about an accident? You’re talking about an accident?
Caller: Yes ma’am! Right here on Cody and Zeigler.
911: Ok it shows your callback number as *REDACTED*.
Caller: Yes ma’am!
911: We do have reports of the accident. Tell me what are they needing? Do you need to speak with medical? What’s going on now?
Caller: Um, you can definitely call for medical um I can’t…
911: What’s your name?
Caller: Um, my name is *REDACTED*. I’m just a bystander.
911: *REDACTED* tell me where—where… you said officers are on scene? Because we do have
reports.
Caller: Um, it’s a officer way down there. I’m not sure if he’s the one that hit them or another—
another car. I—everything –
911: So you’re say the motorcycle—the person on the motorcycle has been hit but you don’t know if they was hit by an officer or somebody else?
Caller: Yeah, I don’t know because the officer was in front of me and there was another car in front of them and they—they—it was just a lot and…
911: Mobile 9-1-1, what’s the address of the emergency?
Caller: Hey man, somebody just got hit by a motorcycle on the corner of Zeigler and Cody Road.
Right here by the Chevron. Please hurry.
911: Ok, we do have—
Caller: Zeigler and Cody Road.
911: Yes sir, we do have reports of this. Do you know the vehicle that hit the motorcycle?
Caller: It was a—it was actually a police officer.
911: A police officer hit the motorcycle?
Honking and yelling can be heard in the background
Caller: Yeah a police officer. I don’t know who hit who but a police officer was involved in the
accident.
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Find the full transcripts from the incident below.
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