County and state police were called to at least five accidents during a late afternoon and evening snowstorm Tuesday in Oxford County.

In Woodstock, 17-year-old Elizabeth Witt of Andover was hurt when her car slid off slick Route 232, hit an embankment, went airborne and rolled end over end onto its roof, Oxford County Deputy Chancey Libby said.

The highway was slippery, the investigator said. “I was slipping on my feet,” he said, adding that snow and sleet were still falling at 8 p.m.

Witt, who was wearing a seat belt, was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway.

The accident happened about 6 p.m. just north of the Gore Road, Libby said. Route 232 was closed from Gore Road to Rumford Avenue while Libby, Woodstock Fire Department and Tri-Town Rescue personnel worked at the scene.

The Honda Elantra, registered to Witt’s mother, was totaled.

A short time later in Hebron, 21-year-old Jeremy Beane hit a patch of ice on a curve along Hebron Station Road, struck a telephone pole that snapped in half, Deputy Sgt. Tim Holland said.

Beane, driving a 1996 Ford sport utility vehicle, was about 2 miles from Hebron Academy when the accident occurred shortly after 6 p.m., Holland said. The road was glare ice, he said.

“Temperatures were hovering right at freezing,” he said. One spot on the road could be just wet from melting snow while “a mile down the road it’s ice.”

The SUV sustained $2,500 damage. Central Maine Power Co. replaced the pole.

In Albany Township, two drivers slid off roads, where as of 11 p.m. there was a couple of inches of snow on the ground, Maine State Police Trooper Lucas Hare said.

Vladimit Tomic, 55, of Waterford and his passenger, 67-year-old Lori Christmas, 67, also of Waterford were not injured when their car slid off Route 5 near Songo Pond Road about 4:45 p.m., he said. The Saturn sustained $2,500 damage.

Shortly after 7 p.m. Mathew Strock, 19, of Bryant Pond, lost control of his Dodge Intrepid on slushy Route 35 and struck a utility pole, Hare said. Damage was estimated at $5,000 to the car.

And at 9:20 p.m. on Route 117 in Otisfield, Melissa Murch, 18, of Baldwin lost control of her 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in slush and struck a utility pole, snapping it, Hare said. Neither she nor her passenger, Thomas Daley, 16, of Bridgton was hurt, he said.

Otisfield Fire Department and Norway police assisted at the scene. Damage to the car was estimated at $7,500.

Earlier Tuesday in Bethel, two drivers escaped injury when their vehicles collided at Bridge Street and The Parkway, Patrolman Mike Grenier said.

Douglas Reilly, 60, of New Jersey was driving east on Bridge Street when his 1999 Lincoln was struck by a 1998 Ford Escort being driven from the Parkway east onto Bridge Street by Harold Clough, 55, of the Bethel area, he said.

Neither driver, nor Reilly’s woman passenger were hurt, Grenier said.

The Lincoln had $2,500 damage and the Ford $500 in the 10:27 a.m. crash.

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