BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 4, 2024
Police closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 295 in Gardiner on Wednesday afternoon after a tanker trailer went off the road. The crash happened at mile 49 near the Gardiner exit at around 1:47 p.m., according to Maine State Police. It blocked all lanes. The truck driven by Allen Hewett, 61, of Sidney, was northbound on I-295, when he crashed into a traffic director trailer. Hewett failed to yield to the maintenance truck that hauled the traffic director. The crash caused the spill of around 8,000 gallons of liquid waste water from a landfill.