A three-car pileup on Interstate 295 in Falmouth resulted in a temporary shutdown of the northbound side of the highway during rush hour Friday afternoon.
No one was injured but one vehicle caught fire in the crash near mile marker 10 around 4:30 p.m., Lt. Aaron Turcotte of Maine State Police in a statement Friday night.
Emily Paskewicz, of Southport, was driving a Subaru sedan and failed to see that traffic had stopped ahead, Turcotte said.
The Subaru struck an Audi sedan driven by Daniel Antolovich of Storrs, Connecticut, Turcotte said, and the impact sent the Audi into a pickup truck, driven by Chad Greelee, of Richmond.
Paskewicz’s Subaru caught fire, Turcotte said, but Falmouth firefighters quickly extinguished it.
Traffic was diverted off the highway at Exit 10 until the right northbound lane was reopened at 5:30 p.m., state police said on social media. The roadway was cleared and both lanes were reopened as of about 6:10 p.m., state police said in an update.
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