AUBURN - A Bingham man was injured Thursday when the truck he was driving collided with a car and rolled over, dumping its load of construction debris at the intersection of Poland and Rodman roads.

The tractor-trailer driver, Guy Stevens, 55, was carried to an ambulance wearing a neck brace, police officer Randy Robbins said. Stevens was being tested for serious injuries at Central Maine Medical Center and was expected to be released Thursday evening.

"He was sitting up when I talked to him and they'd fed him a meal," Robbins said. "He was seat-belted but he got whipped around when the thing rolled."

The accident happened around noon, Robbins said, when Stevens was driving north on Poland Road in his 2002 International, owned by KB Corp. of Milford. A 2006 Volvo station wagon driven by Harriet Fakhery, 67, of Auburn, had stopped at the intersection of Rodman and Poland roads. "She says she came up to the stop sign and didn't see him, and started right out in front of him," Robbins said. "He was coming down through and swerved to miss her."

The truck hit the passenger side of the Volvo and turned over onto its side, partially blocking Poland Road and littering the pavement with debris.

Fakhery's husband, Behzad, 76, was in the passenger seat. Both had cuts and some pain after the accident, but neither complained of serious injury. The Volvo was destroyed, Robbins said. He gave a rough estimate of $10,000 damage to the truck.

"Thank God I have a Volvo. It saved our lives," Harriet Fakhery said, waiting on some grass near the crash site while police and firefighters cleaned up glass and debris from around her car.

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.

They were both more worried about Stevens than the rice, though, she said. "All these things can be replaced - but your life is irreplaceable."

Poland Road was closed for about four hours Thursday, Robbins said, while police investigated the scene and debris was removed.