Hard to believe about a week ago, on New Year’s Eve, people were outside in shorts playing golf and pickleball.

Tuesday, people who were outside were bundled up to take on single-digit wind chills.

“I’m just trying to stay as warm as possible,” said Chris McCormick, of West Hartford.

He said the frigid temps only slightly changed his plans.

“The cold weather made me consider making it a short walk and getting some hot food,” said McCormick. “I’ve got a very warm hat, said McCormick. “I got this hat for Christmas. I’m a big UConn Husky fan. I got a warm jacket on. I got my sweater on and my warm sport coat.”

Richard Grew, also from West Hartford, agrees.

“My wife got me into these great Christmas presents, and one was a set of gloves that are battery operated,” said Grew. “And they have heaters inside of it. So, it’s pretty cool.”

Grew said the windy and cold conditions had him change course for the day.

“I was going to walk from our house three blocks away, about seven blocks to town hall to pay the taxes, but it was too much — I mean, look at it,” said Grew.

Hugh Hollinshead, from Larsen Ace Hardware in West Hartford listed some of the popular items customers have been shopping for.

“Snow shovels, a little bit of ice melt, and the snow blowers,” said Hollinshead.

While they are busy today, he said it’s nothing compared to what’s to come this winter season.

“A flake of snow. When there is one flake of snow, people come out in droves.”

A police lieutenant in Maine and two others suffered serious injuries when another driver crashed head-on into his police cruiser in Turner while the lieutenant was on his way home from work on Monday, authorities said Tuesday.

Monmouth Police Lt. Dana Wessling, 52, of Turner, was extricated from his cruiser and flown to Maine Medical Center in Portland with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The other driver, Sean McNeil, 41, of Minot, and his passenger, a 47-year-old woman from Turner, were both taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The conditions of Wessling, McNeil and the unidentified woman were not known on Tuesday.

On Monday, at 4:49 p.m., the Androscoggin County Regional Communications Center received a report of a two-vehicle, head-on crash at the intersection of Turner Center Road and Bradford Road in Turner.

Deputies along with Turner Fire-Rescue were immediately dispatched to the scene, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said.

A preliminary investigation found that Wessling was traveling west on Turner Center Road in his take-home cruiser, a black 2022 Ford Interceptor that is owned by the Town of Monmouth.

McNeil, driving his silver 2013 Ford F150 pickup truck, was traveling east on Turner Center Road when McNeil came around a curve, crossed the center line and was in Wessling’s lane when the two vehicles collided, authorities said.

Both vehicles had extensive front-end damage and were totaled, authorities said.

Wessling, who was on his way home at the end of his shift, had just picked up his 7-year-old son at daycare, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said. His son was taken by private vehicle to a local hospital to be examined for precautionary reasons.

Investigators from the sheriff’s office and the Lewiston Police Department were on scene to reconstruct the crash.

The crash investigation remains under investigation.

Turner is a small town in Maine, just north of Lewiston. The town’s population was 5,817 at the 2020 census.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.

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