FARMINGTON – A Farmington man escaped injury Tuesday after the car he was operating collided with a loaded tractor-trailer on Route 4.
Farmington police officer Shane Cote said William Lovejoy told him he was driving a car new to him and was trying to turn on the windshield wipers but turned on the lights instead.
Lovejoy, who was heading south on Route 4, then shut off the lights, turned on the wipers and squirted windshield fluid on the window, Cote said, and the liquid froze.
A tractor-trailer owned and operated by Scott Bowen of Jay had been stopped on Route 27 waiting to turn left onto Route 4, Cote said.
Bowen thought when Lovejoy turned his lights on and off he was signaling Bowen to go, Cote said.
Bowen was nearly through the intersection when Lovejoy’s vehicle struck the trailer going about 40 miles per hour, Cote said.
The 1992 Ford Escort bounced off the trailer loaded with pulp wood, he said, and spun around. The car took out the jack stands on the trailer, Cote said.
The Escort was destroyed, he said.
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