A crash involving two tractor-trailers shut down part of the Maine Turnpike for four hours overnight.
State police said they were called to a report of a crash around 10:30 p.m. Thursday on the Maine Turnpike southbound in Saco.
Their investigation showed that a Ford Explorer attempted to exit the highway at the last minute, cutting off a flatbed tractor-trailer, striking the truck and sending into the median. A second tractor-trailer unit was unable to avoid the truck in the median and crashed into it.Get New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.
The driver of the Ford Explorer, 50-year-old Fidele Kaderi of Biddeford, was taken to an area hospital but is expected to survive. The drivers of the two tractor-trailers were not injured.State police said the southbound lanes were shut down for about four hours, reopening just before 3 a.m. Friday. The northbound side of the turnpike was shut down for only a short time.
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