AUGUSTA — A motor vehicle crash Thursday at the highway off-ramp and Civic Center Drive was slowing the morning commute as police and rescue crews responded to the scene.
The crash appears to have happened around 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of the Exit 112 off-ramp for Interstate 95 and Civic Center Drive. One car could be seen with a front end smashed in.
Rescue and the fire department crews arrived around 7:50 a.m., attending to a passenger in the smashed up side of one vehicle.
Further details were not immediately available from Maine State Police, which was the agency handling the accident. Augusta police officers assisted with traffic at the scene.
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