The crash involved four trucks, two snowmobiles, a trailer and one driver.

LIVERMORE – A spectacular Sunday afternoon crash caused nearly $50,000 in damage to four pickups, two snowmobiles and a trailer. Remarkably, the only driver involved in the wreck and his passenger both escaped injury.

Sgt. James Jacques of the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department said Scott E. Ivers “was pretty lucky” to walk away from the crash.

Ivers, 40, of 18 Apple Ridge Road, Durham, was returning home from the Rangeley area where he had spent much of the day snowmobiling with his 16-year-old son when the crash occurred, according to Jacques.

“He apparently fell asleep,” Jacques said.

Ivers’ 2002 Chevy Avalanche was heading south on Route 4 at about 55 miles per hour minutes after 3 p.m. when it veered off the highway still hauling a snowmobile trailer. It rode up and onto a snowbank then went airborne, landing in the bed of a 1997 Toyota pickup at Brian Korhonen’s used vehicle dealership.

Jacques said after Ivers’ truck landed in the Toyota, it rolled out and into 1999 Dodge Ram pickup, which in turn rolled into a 1995 Toyota pickup.

The crash had loads of “curb appeal,” Jacques said, prompting scores of passing motorists to slow down and rubberneck as they drove by.

Jacques said Ivers Avalanche sustained an estimated $20,000 in damage. The Toyota it landed on was damaged to the tune of about $10,000, Jacques said, while the Dodge Ram suffered about $9,000 in damage and the second Toyota suffered another $6,000 in damage.

The trailer Ivers was towing sustained an estimated $1,000, Jacques said, and the two snowmobiles in it, 2003 and 2004 Arctic Cats, were also damaged. He estimated the sleds damage at $2,500.

Jacques said no charges were filed in the crash. He was assisted at the scene by other sheriff’s deputies and firefighters from the Livermore Fire Department.

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