PITTSFIELD — One person was injured and traffic on Interstate 95 was restricted to one lane on Thursday after a box truck and tractor trailer collided on the highway, authorities confirmed.
The box truck was traveling north in the right lane near mile marker 148 and slowed to almost a stop, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss, causing the driver of a tractor trailer traveling behind the box truck to slam into it, resulting in both trucks veering into a ditch beside the road.
“The tractor-trailer went off the roadway and jackknifed,” Moss said. “The travel lane was shut down due to the removal of the box truck and the tractor trailer unit.”
The box truck’s driver, Patricio Mabaza, 40, of Portland, suffered minor injuries and was briefly hospitalized at Pittsfield’s Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital. The driver of the tractor trailer, Vikram Singh, 28, of Greenwood, Indiana, was uninjured.
I-95’s travel lane was closed for about four hours after the crash, Moss said.
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