Whats going on in Alton????????

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Originally Posted by RailroadJoe

I travel Route 11 a lot at 55 to 60 miles per hour. Needless to say , many times the cars pile up behind me. Why they have to do 10 miles over the speed limit, whether 30 or 70, is beyond me. I have had them pass me and two other cars in about the same place. They must be doing between 80 and 85 to pass 3 of us. Normally I see them stopped at the traffic light in Farmington.

We were headed home around 9pm(we live in Merrymeeting river mhp) and as we were going by taylor rental on rt.11 headed west a pickup passed 3 vehicles behind me and than our vehicle and barely got back into the lane before hitting an oncoming car. I said that guy is going to kill someone! 5 minutes later as we were pulling into the park we saw the accident about 100-200 yards up the road, it had just happened moments before. debris everywhere and one truck was on fire and no responders had arrived yet but could hear sirens in the distance. Residents of the park were coming out to see what the loud crash was, and than emergency personel arrived and blocked off rt.11 from johnsons to the circle and detoured traffic to old bay rd. We went to bed after midnight and the reconstruction team were still on scene. many surrounding towns had responded including the d.a.r.t. helicopter landed at johnsons for transport.