AUGUSTA — The speed limit is going up on parts of the Maine Turnpike next week. The Maine Turnpike Authority said Friday that the speed limit will be raised by 5 mph to become 70 mph on most of Interstate 95 starting Monday. The speed limit will remain 65 mph south of Kittery. On the […]
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Maine transportation chief to announce whether to raise interstate speed limit
AUGUSTA — Mainers may soon be able to drive faster on Interstate 295. Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt will announce his decision Tuesday on whether to raise the speed limit. Maine’s Democratic-led Legislature approved a bill last year that allows the transportation chief to raise the speed limit to 75 miles per hour. The […]
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Maine officials to announce speed limit decision
AUGUSTA — Maine officials will soon announce their decision about whether to raise the speed limits on interstate highways. Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt said Thursday that he will make the announcement at the department’s headquarters on Capitol Street in Augusta on Tuesday, May 27, at 11 a.m. The state Legislature in 2013 […]
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State trooper injured in accident on Interstate 295
PORTLAND — State police say a Trooper was slightly injured Friday morning when her cruiser was struck on Interstate 295. Trooper Jessica Shorey was treated and released from Maine Medical Center for neck and back pain. She was in her cruiser parked in the southbound breakdown lane just south of Tukey’s Bridge where two other cars had […]
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Plane lands on I-295 in Cumberland
CUMBERLAND — Maine State Police were at the scene of an emergency plane landing in the southbound lanes of Interstate 295 on Thursday evening. The single-engine plane landed about 5 p.m., Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a news release. He said that the plane might have experienced engine trouble. The […]
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Woman injured in three-vehicle crash on I-295
PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities said an 80-year-old woman has been critically injured in a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 295 in Portland. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said the vehicles smashed into one another on I-295 south shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday, causing the lanes to be closed for more than an hour. […]
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Portland woman charged after forcing car off I-295, leaving scene
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine state troopers have tracked down a Portland woman they say left the scene after forcing another vehicle off Interstate 295 and sending four people to the hospital. Police said a vehicle driven by 44-year-old Julie Caton was passing on the right in the southbound lanes in Cumberland just after 4 p.m. […]
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Police say they chased 13-year-old in SUV on Interstate 295
TOPSHAM — A 13-year-old boy in Maine is facing charges after he allegedly took his parents’ sport utility vehicle and led police on a high-speed chase. Topsham police say the boy took the vehicle after an argument with his parents Monday afternoon and drove to Interstate 295. Police tell the Times Record of Brunswick that […]
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Two children thrown from minivan in I-295 accident
PORTLAND — The southbound lanes of Interstate 295 have been shut down in the wake of a one-vehicle crash near the Back Bay, police said. Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said a southbound minivan struck a guardrail around 1 p.m. Two children, a boy and a girl who are elementary-school age, were thrown […]
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I-295 reopens Friday morning in Portland
PORTLAND — Interstate 295 in Portland is reopened after it was shut down in both directions Friday morning because of utility lines that fell across the roadway. State police say the lines fell after an excavator struck a utility pole at a construction site near the highway at about 1 a.m. Friday. No one was […]