One of the large wind turbine blades being hauled from Searsport to the Canadian Maritimes hit and broke a traffic light and pulled down wires at Hogan Road and Mount Hope Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. Saturday, according to Bangor police.
Police did not close the road but did park a cruiser in the middle of the intersection until employees from Bangor Public Works could arrive to repair the light.
Maine State Police have been escorting the tractor-trailers carrying the blades from Searsport to Houlton. The escort begins in Searsport along Routes 1 and 1A. Because of a low overpass along Interstate 95 in Bangor, the convoys travel through the city on Odlin Road to Hammond and State streets and Hogan Road before heading north on the interstate to Houlton.