Ice and snow on area roads caused several accidents on Thursday.
In Dixfield, three people escaped injury at 10:20 a.m. when their vehicles collided at Porter Road and U.S. Route 2.
Dixfield Police Chief Richard Pickett said Allana F. Schlear, 29, of Route 2 in Rumford, was traveling east on Porter Road to the intersection with Route 2 when her 1993 Ford Escort was struck by a 1993 Jeep Cherokee driven by Julie M. McDonald of Porter Road.
Pickett said that as McDonald turned onto Porter Road from Route 2, her Jeep apparently hit snow and ice, causing her to hit Schlear’s vehicle.
With Schlear was the vehicle’s owner, Ruth Small, 84, also of Rumford. Neither woman was injured. The Escort sustained an estimated $3,500 damage to the front left section, said Pickett. McDonald’s Jeep sustained about $1,000 damage.
Also, SAD 21 Superintendent Tom Ward credits bus driver Tom Kelly with quick thinking in avoiding injury to a student riding in his bus when it was struck by a sedan early Thursday morning on Canton Point Road.
Pickett said the bus was traveling north when an oncoming sedan, heading south, apparently slipped on the ice and slid into the school bus, scraping the side.
Kelly was able to take evasive action to avoid a head-on collision, said Pickett. The bus came to rest in a snowbank instead.
“He was able to safely stop and no one was injured,” said Ward. “The bus driver did a great job. He should be commended.”
The handicapped-accessible bus was carrying a middle school student whose wheelchair was securely strapped in.
Pickett said the sedan was carrying two males who also sustained no injury.
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