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ENFIELD<\/strong>: Icy roads are being blamed for a multi-vehicle collision that snarled traffic on Hwy 102 during the early morning commute on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer, said that officers from the Enfield detachment responded to calls after reports came in of multiple vehicles involved in a collision between Elmsdale and Enfield on Hwy 102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUpon arrival on scene officers ;learned one vehicle had spun out and collided with the guard rail after sliding on icy roads,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The collisions happened in the construction of the new overpass bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enfield Fire, with mutual aid from Elmsdale Fire and Station 45 Fall River responded to the scene. EHS attended as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Const. Burns said six other vehicles collided while trying to stop and avoid colliding with the first vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThankfully there were no injuries reported,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Six of the vehicles were towed, four with heavy damage, while one was able to drive off on its own power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hwy 102 inbound was closed to traffic as crews work, but quickly had one lane open. By 9 a.m. traffic was flowing smoothly again in both inbound lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe motoring public is reminded to be cognizant of early morning frost and\/ or black ice conditions at this time of year,\u201d said Const. Burns, \u201cespecially on bridges that routinely develop ice on them before solid land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”84″] [adrotate banner=”115″] ENFIELD: Icy roads are being blamed for a multi-vehicle collision that snarled traffic on Hwy 102 during the early morning commute on Oct. 24. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer, said that officers from the Enfield detachment responded to calls after reports came in of multiple vehicles involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[196,390,50,121,62,5659,14],"class_list":["post-39860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-hwy-102","tag-multi-vehicle-collision","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}