RSU 12 school bus halts in Alna due to road conditions
A Dresden woman awaits a tow truck after the car she was driving down Alna’s Head Tide Hill went partly off the road the morning of November 26. Pictured further down the hill is a Regional School Unit 12 bus that was awaiting sand before climbing the hill. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
This RSU 12 school bus was waiting for Head Tide Hill in Alna to be treated before its driver took it the rest of the way up the hill during Tuesday’s snowy morning commute. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
A Dresden woman awaits a tow truck after the car she was driving down Alna’s Head Tide Hill went partly off the road the morning of November 26. Pictured further down the hill is a Regional School Unit 12 bus that was awaiting sand before climbing the hill. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
This RSU 12 school bus was waiting for Head Tide Hill in Alna to be treated before its driver took it the rest of the way up the hill during Tuesday’s snowy morning commute. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Alna firefighters were diverting traffic from Head Tide Hill on November 26 while a car awaited pullout from the shoulder and a Regional School Unit 12 school bus waited for a town sand crew to treat the hill.
Superintendent Howard Tuttle confirmed it was a district bus and had not been in an accident, but that the driver did not proceed up the hill due to the need for sand. He did not know if any students were on board.
Up the hill from the bus, Danielle Austin of Dresden was waiting for AAA in a 2008 Chevy Cobalt.
Austin said she was going about five miles an hour down the snow-covered hill when the car started going back and forth. About three other cars in front of her also did some swerving but managed to continue on their way without incident.
Austin said she was not hurt. The car had no visible damage.
The car went partly off the road at about 7 a.m.
A sand crew was on the way, an Alna fire official on the hill said shortly before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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