Traffic might be delayed on a stretch of Interstate 95 in Pittsfield after a tractor-trailer went off the highway on Friday afternoon.
The truck, which was carrying metal frame boxes and pallets, went off the road around mile 150 to 151 on the northbound side of the interstate at about 4 p.m., Shannon Moss, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety said.
The crash happened at the end of a single-lane construction zone. The driver went off road to the right into the soft shoulder, and the truck got sucked down the embankment and into the ditch, coming to rest in about four feet of mud, Moss said.
The driver was not injured, Moss said.
As of 4:30 p.m., traffic was flowing freely, but Moss cautioned that the area might become congested when wreckers arrive to pull the tractor-trailer out, which will happen after the Maine Department of Environmental Protection cleans up some fuel that leaked from one of the truck’s tanks.
