LOVELL – Sabattus Road was shut down for several hours Monday after a full cement truck went off the road and tipped over in a ditch, according to police.
Maine State Police Trooper Adam Fillebrown said Harold Bryan, 59, of North Conway, N.H., was traveling north on the road at 9:30 a.m. when he pulled to the right to make way for an oncoming car.
“He got too close to the side and the tar gave way,” Fillebrown said, “and he basically ended up in a ditch.”
The truck landed on its side at the bottom of the ditch, the trooper said. Bryan removed himself from the truck and no injuries were reported.
Fillebrown said the truck was owned by a Coleman Concrete of Conway, N.H. It contained about 10 cubic yards of wet cement, he said, and a crane was required to lift it from the ditch.
“I left at 2 p.m. and the road was still shut down,” Fillebrown said.
The car that Bryan said he moved to avoid was not at the scene when police arrived, Fillebrown said.
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