Icy road conditions gave emergency workers in Edgecomb a busy morning December 1.

At one point, Route 27 was shut down in both directions near Parsons Point Road until a Maine Department of Transportation sand truck could arrive, Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter said.

The emergency calls began around 7:45 a.m. when a car slipped off Route 27 near the Boothbay line and went into a ditch, Potter said. Emergency workers called for the state to come sand; traffic remained closed on that stretch for 45 minutes to an hour until the road was treated, he said.

“You could hardly stand up on the road, it was so bad,” Potter said of the conditions.

The Edgecomb First Responders team, on which Potter also serves, was then called to the home of a River Road man who had fallen while outside, Potter said. He was unsure of the cause of the fall. The man was taken to Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta with a possible hip injury, Potter said.

Also taken to Miles was the driver who was the lone occupant of a sport utility vehicle that rolled over, on River Road. The report of that accident came in while emergency workers were responding to the medical call on River Road, Potter said.

The driver's injuries were minor, the chief said. No one needed transport to the hospital following the earlier accident on Route 27, he said.