Morning commute turns nightmare after Spaulding crash closes southbound lanes

A tow truck prepares to load a Jeep onto its back end after a crash on the Spaulding folo (Provided/David Petrusewicz)

ROCHESTER - What began as a typical morning commute became anything but on Monday when an accident on the Spaulding Turnpike completely shut down the southbound lanes of the highway for about an hour.
David Petrusewicz of Rochester said he was headed to Dover when the highway clogged just south of Exit 12 (Route 125) around 7:30 a.m.
The southbound lanes remained closed while state police and local ambulance services responded to multiple calls for the injured.
Rochester, N.H., Scanner Alerts posted that the motor vehicle accident involved at least one entrapment.
Multiple injuries were reported, but the number of vehicles involved cannot be verified by The Rochester Voice.
Petrusewicz, however, said he saw one vehicle, a Jeep, being towed from the scene and at least one ambulance headed north in the southbound lanes to deliver a patient to Frisbie Memorial Hospital.
Since there was no egress to the northbound lanes police allowed motorists one by one to turn their vehicles around in the southbound lanes and head back north to the nearest exit.
Petrosewicz said he was able to head north in the southbound lane around 8:20 a.m.
Rochester Police provided traffic coverage to get motorists safely off the highway at the Route 125 southbound onramp.
This story will be updated if more information becomes available from state police.