Car accidents were few and far between over the weekend despite 2 feet of snow burying the region, but a couple of inches of mixed snow, sleet and rain sent cars spinning into guardrails and medians.
The reason is simple – almost nobody was out driving Friday night and Saturday morning, when Winter Storm Nemo was at its peak in central New England.
But Monday brought a collective desire, or need, to return to normal schedules, regardless of the 2 or so inches of snow, sleet and freezing rain that made the morning commute an adventure.
“Any time you get a mix like that it makes for a messy commute,” Nashua Superintendent of Streets Roy Sorenson said Monday. “We had crews back out first thing this morning treating the roads” to help move school and other commuter traffic safer and easier, he added.
Police throughout the area responded to a series of spin-out and relatively minor sliding accidents through mid-morning, most the result of slick road surfaces created by the brief snowfall followed by a period of sleet.
Nashua Police Sgt. Michael Fauteux, the uniformed division’s second-shift supervisor Monday, said that while the morning commute was messy, no reports of anything significant came across his desk.
“It was still a little slick when I came in, but apparently there was nothing noteworthy enough to pass on to my shift,” Fauteux said.![]()
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