It was a busy day on the roads in north-central Alberta Monday, and it’s believed slippery driving conditions played a role in the mayhem that ensued.

In Edmonton, police were called to dozens of collisions in the city throughout the day.

In one case, a police officer was injured as she was investigating an existing collision on Anthony Henday Drive westbound, near the 111 Street off-ramp.

Police said the second crash happened at about 8:50 a.m. –the officer was wearing a reflective vest, and leaning into the window of one of the vehicles involved in the two-car crash – when another vehicle hit it.

The impact of the crash reportedly threw the officer onto the hood of the second car.

She was taken to hospital as a precaution, where her injuries were found to be minor.

The female driver of one of the vehicles involved was also sent to hospital, her injuries were also found to be minor.

Those were not the only collisions to take place in that section of road – about a half a dozen incidents of crashes or vehicles in the ditch were reported on the Henday between Lessard Road and Rabbit Hill Road.

In total, Edmonton police were called to about 60 collisions between 6 and 11:30 a.m. – but by 6:30 p.m., police reported officers were called to 150 crashes – 22 hit and run incidents, 15 injury collisions and 113 property damage crashes.

South of the city, RCMP officers were dealing with a number of collisions, just on the Queen Elizabeth 2 highway.

On Monday morning there were reports that the northbound lanes of the QE2 south of Red Deer were closed, due to a multiple vehicle pile-up.

“We have a five vehicle collision here; we have another two vehicle collision there,” Sheriff Peter Van Muyen with the Alberta Highway Patrol said. “We have three vehicles just about two kilometres up and we have multiple vehicle collisions up in Didsbury right now.”

There were so many vehicles involved that there were fears it might be difficult to find enough tow trucks to clear things up.

Officers told CTV News any injuries suffered in the incident were minor.

“If that’s the worst that’s going to happen, that’s the best case scenario,” Van Muyen said.

A spokesperson for Alberta Transportation said sanders their department has on standby are expected to respond – the province is expected to update the public on the numbers Monday afternoon.

The snow and treacherous roads came on the same day the city planned to begin clearing windrows from the city’s collector routes.

CTV News has learned 10 crews have been sent out to start removing windrows from residential bus routes throughout the city.

Crews are expected to be out each day between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Drivers in these areas are asked to abide by temporary parking bans that are expected to last up to three days each.

However, now that additional snow has fallen, officials are keeping an eye on the amount of accumulation.

“Depends on how much actually accumulates, [that] will tell us whether we have to interrupt the operation or not,” Director of Roadway Maintenance Bob Dunford said. “We’ll need those resources that are on snow crews to plow roadways.”

As of Monday evening, the city said there wasn’t enough snow on the ground to plow.

In the meantime, a police spokesperson suggested motorists adjust their driving habits, and slowdown in such driving conditions.

“Here we have people still not adjusting their driving habits,” Scott Pattison said. “You’re going to be late getting to work, that’s better than not getting to work at all, or perhaps a police officer not getting home to their family.”

With files from Susan Amerongen