The Interstate-295 overpass on Durham Road in Brunswick was damaged Tuesday by a piece of equipment that was on a trailer traveling underneath the bridge.

According to the Maine Department of Transportation, the equipment struck heading northbound.

Brunswick police issued a traffic alert on social media closing the overpass at approximately 3:30 p.m. At roughly 4:45 p.m. police said that one lane of the overpass bridge was reopened.

The southbound side of I-295 is reduced to one lane at the Durham Road overpass because the bridge was struck by a piece of equipment on a trailer. There are no reports of injuries. Please be careful and patient. pic.twitter.com/BQvMKnWair

— MaineDOT (@MaineDOT1) December 7, 2021

“Three beams on the bridge were hit. Maine DOT crews are responding,” wrote Maine DOT spokesperson Paul Merrill in an email at around 4 p.m. “In past cases like this, a bridge maintenance engineer typically goes to inspect the bridge before traffic will be allowed to return to normal.”

According to a social media post by the Maine DOT, no injuries were reported.

Both lanes of I-295 should be reopened by 7 p.m. and bridge maintenance engineers are scheduled to inspect the bridge again, Merrill said.

At approximately 5 p.m. traffic was backed up on I-295 headed northbound beginning at the Durham Road overpass and ending just before the Desert Road overpass in Freeport.

The Times Record reporter Kathleen O’Brien contributed to this report.

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