\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA nearly half-mile stretch of U.S. Route 1 in Scarborough was closed in both directions for hours due to a crash, according to police.The Scarborough Police Department announced shortly before 4:55 p.m. Tuesday that Route 1 was shut down to all traffic between Willowdale Road and Haigis Parkway.Police told Maine’s Total Coverage that a vehicle struck a telephone pole.The closure was expected to last several hours, according to police.Shortly after 11 p.m., Scarborough police announced that the affected section of Route 1 had reopened to all traffic.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A nearly half-mile stretch of U.S. Route 1 in Scarborough was closed in both directions for hours due to a crash, according to police.<\/p>\n
The Scarborough Police Department announced shortly before 4:55 p.m. Tuesday that Route 1 was shut down to all traffic between Willowdale Road and Haigis Parkway.<\/p>\n
Police told Maine’s Total Coverage that a vehicle struck a telephone pole.<\/p>\n
The closure was expected to last several hours, according to police.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 11 p.m., Scarborough police announced that the affected section of Route 1 had reopened to all traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nearly half-mile stretch of U.S. Route 1 in Scarborough was closed in both directions for hours due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,5495,266046,451,10482,14971,3,14797,3590,1583,59160,15681,266047,55462,266049,266051,266050,452,453,59166,2987,71953,53343,10129,266048,14972],"class_list":["post-612786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-direction","tag-haigis-parkway","tag-headlines","tag-maine","tag-maines-total-coverage","tag-news","tag-part","tag-people","tag-police","tag-road-closure","tag-route","tag-route-1","tag-scarborough","tag-scarborough-crash","tag-scarborough-police-department","tag-telephone-pole","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-total-coverage","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-alert","tag-u-s-route","tag-vehicle","tag-willowdale-road","tag-wmtw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}