AUBURN — The driver of an overturned tractor trailer carrying construction waste was taken to Central Maine Medical Center Thursday after his truck collided with a Volvo at the intersection of Poland and Rodman roads.

The driver, whose name is not yet available, got out of the 2002 International by himself but was carried to an ambulance on a board and with a neck brace, police officer Randy Robbins said.

Volvo driver Harriet Fakhery of Auburn said she had stopped at a stop sign and was driving down Rodman Road toward the Maine Turnpike with husband Behzad Fakhery in the passenger seat, when the truck hit her on the passenger side.

“He turned my car around,” she said. “Thank God I have a Volvo. It saved our lives.”

Witness Ashley Balfour, 18, of Lewiston, said she thought the truck driver was at fault, but added she saw the accident through a rearview mirror while waiting in the car. “I saw the truck hit, and then heard a huge boom,” she said.

Police were busy investigating the accident and cleaning up debris, and won’t be sure what caused it until they’ve spoken with the driver of the truck, which is owned by K&B Corp., out of Old Town, Robbins said. The Volvo was probably totaled and damage to the tractor-trailer might be around $10,000, he added. On their way to Boston for their son-in-law’s birthday party, with rice pilaf for 50 in the back seat, the Fakherys were busy trying to get to their second car and figure out if the rice survived the accident.

“Ten hours of work,” Harriet Fakhery lamented, upon hearing her back window had shattered.

But the two were more worried about the driver of the truck, whose condition was unknown at 1 p.m. “All these things can be replaced — but your life is irreplaceable,” Fakhery said.

Poland Road will be closed for at least another two to four hours today, Robbins said, while police investigate the scene.