A crash snarled traffic on Interstate 95 in Bangor on Tuesday morning.
Lenin Martinez, 45, of Pennsylvania was driving a tractor-trailer north on I-95, near mile marker 183 and the interchange with Interstate 395, about 8:56 a.m. when he went off the left-hand side of the road and struck median cables, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Martinez regained control of the tractor-trailer and crossed both northbound lanes to get to the breakdown lane, where he came to a stop, Moss said early Tuesday afternoon.
That brought traffic behind Martinez to a stop, and one vehicle that slowed for the tractor-trailer was then rear-ended by another vehicle, Andrew Emery, assistant chief for the Bangor Fire Department, said Tuesday morning.
Moss said that blocked the right travel lane where I-395 merges to I-95, necessitating a detour for I-395 traffic.
Bangor firefighters and state police closed the passing lane on I-95 and exit 1B on 395 westbound to clear the crash, but crews had cleared or nearly cleared the wreck by 10 a.m., Emery said.
No one was injured in either crash.
The crash remains under investigation.