SAUGUS — The first signs of winter were not a wonderland for the town Sunday evening.

Amid the first snow of the winter season, police responded to a “higher than normal” volume of calls for disabled motor vehicles and car crashes in town Sunday evening, officials said.

In all, between 2:30 p.m. and midnight on Sunday, police responded to 17 calls for service, according to Assistant Chief Ronald Giorgetti. He said three people were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries as a result of crashes Sunday evening.

Giorgetti attributed the high call volume to the weather conditions as well as the fact that Sunday night’s flakes marked the first snow of the season.

“It takes a while for people to adjust their driving habits,” he said, noting that the forecast called for less snow than the area got. “It was the first time where there’s inclement weather. [It] usually catches people off guard.”

The union representing the town’s fire department took to Facebook to warn drivers to be careful on the roads.

“Busy night,” the Saugus Firefighters Local 1003 wrote. “The roads are slippery be careful.”

On Monday morning, police responded to Bisbee Road at 7:27 a.m. after a car slammed into a school bus, a crash Giorgetti said was likely fueled by the cold weather. No one was injured in that crash, he said, and the school department arranged for transportation for the juveniles aboard the bus.

Areas of the North Shore received roughly an inch of snow Sunday, and temperatures remained below freezing for most of the day Monday, keeping icy conditions in place, the National Weather Service said.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said Monday morning that they had about 446 pieces of equipment deployed in storm operations statewide. As of 7:05 a.m., pavement temperatures were below freezing across the state, the department said.

By 8:20 Monday morning, snow had come to an end in all areas of the state except for southeastern Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service.