NEW SHARON - A South Portland woman was treated and released from a Farmington hospital Thursday after her car collided with a loaded tractor-trailer at Routes 2 and 27 across from Douin's Market.

Inga Hanna, 78, was taken by ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital as a precaution.

Carroll Thompson of Mercer said she was following the truck loaded with wood and headed toward Farmington.

When she crested the hill on Route 2, Thompson said she saw a green car pulling out of Route 27 onto Route 2. The truck driver veered to the right to go around it but the car attempted to get across the road, Thompson said, so the truck driver veered to the left to try and avoid the car but hit the rear of it, she said.

The car ended up in the parking lot of Douin's Market with its nose through the store's sign.

Brad Dube, 32, of Starks, driver of the Ken Reed Log Land Forest Products truck from Madison, said he did all he could to avoid hitting the car.

"I hit the passenger side rear," Dube said. "If I hadn't swerved to the left, I would have hit her right on the passenger side door."

He stopped the truck a short distance away.

"I'll tell you, I come out of the truck running," Dube said, to check on the woman.

Maine State Police Trooper Joshua Birmingham confirmed what Dube and Thompson said.

Hanna was not able to get out of the truck's way, Birmingham said.

Diane Kruchkow of New Sharon said Hanna was coming up to visit her.

"She was heading to my house. She has wanted to come up here for 20 years, and then she was going to Kingfield to visit another friend," Kruchkow said.

"I think she is in good shape," Kruchkow said of Hanna, who was seen sitting up on a stretcher as she was wheeled to the ambulance. "They took her to the hospital as a precaution. She didn't want to go."

The Sterling 2003 truck, which was headed to Verso Paper in Jay, had little damage, Dube said.

It was the second time Douin's Market sign has been destroyed in a year.

"I would love to see them lower the speed limit here," said Joseph Douin, co-owner of the market with his wife, DeAnne. It is 45 miles per hour, he said, and he would like to see it go down to 35 mph.