TURNER – Speed likely caused a single-car accident that injured three people Sunday night, police said.

Christopher Powell, 18, of Route 202, Greene, was driving a Pontiac Firebird eastbound on Snell Hill Road when he apparently lost control of the car on a curve. The car slammed into an embankment, hit a culvert, then spun back into the road, said Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Deputy David Rancourt.

He said the car was likely traveling at a “high rate of speed” when it approached the curve.

“I would say probably speed was the factor,” that caused Powell to lose control of the car, Rancourt said. The accident was called in at 8:18 p.m.

Powell and his two passengers were taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. No information was available on their medical conditions at press time. Police withheld names of the two females passengers because their ages were unknown, Rancourt said.

One of them appeared to be in serious condition. She was “in and out” of consciousness, Rancourt said.