A quick-hitting snow squall caused several accidents and backed up traffic Tuesday morning, mostly on Interstate 295 south near the Brunswick-Freeport line, police said.
State police handled most of the calls. A state police dispatcher in Gray said none of the accidents involved serious injuries.
Freeport Police Chief Gerald Schofield said he happened to be driving during the succession of accidents, just after 11 a.m.
“There was a series of them, one right after the other,” Schofield said. “There was that quick little snow squall between 9 and 10, and the roads just kind of got slippery really fast.”
The first call came in at 10:50, Schofield said. At 11, a vehicle went off I-295 south; another accident was called in five minutes later on Durham Road; then a vehicle went off the Desert Road offramp five minutes later.
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