I-95 in Maine partially reopened after 75-vehicle pileup

[jakeXT]

ETNA, Maine — A crash Wednesday involving at least 75 vehicles shut down Interstate 95 for about five hours between Newport and Bangor, state police said.

The crash — which involves cars, a school bus and a tractor trailer in the northbound lanes — injured at least 17 people, including at least two in serious condition, according to Maine State Police. Children on the bus were shaken up but not injured.

The collisions began at about 7:30 a.m. ET in heavy snow falling near Etna, Maine, about 30 miles west of Bangor. The main crash involved more than two dozen vehicles, and a series of other wrecks — some with two or three vehicles and others in which vehicles slid off the road to avoid collisions — led up to the crash site, troopers said.

A state police spokesman said 50 vehicles were towed away and an additional 25 were damaged.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/25/interstate-95-crash-maine/23989051/

[drynberg]

1. NOT A GOOD WEEK FOR BANGOR...MORE THAN 115" OF SNOW, 6.1 F. AVE. TEMP. FEB.

Only good news is no one was seriously injured nor killed from this wreckage...s-l-o-w-d-o-w-n