First snow mires morning commute

Tire tracks in the snow show where two cars almost ended up in a pond on Champion Street today. (Lebanon Rescue photo)

LEBANON - Several minor accidents occurred in Lebanon this morning as motorists had to contend with the area’s first appreciable snowfall of the season.
State Police and Lebanon Rescue responded to accidents on Shapleigh and Dixon roads among others.
Soon after the Dixon Road incident, Assistant Rescue Chief Jason Cole said he saw a swerving car narrowly miss a telephone pole then go over a retention wall before almost landing in a small pond on Champion Street.
He said what turned out to be a 47-year-old woman from Rochester in a 2005 Mustang then regained control of her car and went to the Cumberland Farms in downtown Milton. Cole said he followed a trail of leaking antifreeze in the snow to her vehicle. “The driver was injured and transported to Frisbie Memorial Hospital by ambulance for those injuries, which are not believed to be life threatening,” Cole said in a press release.
The vehicle suffered heavy damage to the underneath and front of the vehicle and had to be towed from the scene, the press release stated.