WEST PARIS – A West Paris boy was killed early Friday afternoon when the car he was riding in rolled off the dirt Tuelltown Road into a tree, police said.

Tristan Peltier, 7, was pronounced dead at the scene, Maine State Police Trooper John Hainey said.

Injured in the 12:30 p.m. wreck were Peltier’s 9-year-old brother, Anthony, and the 16-year-old driver and his 12-year-old brother.

Hainey declined to release the name of the driver until a decision is made with the district attorney’s office about whether to file charges against him.

Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said the teen had only a driver’s permit, which doesn’t allow him to drive without an adult in the car.

All three boys, whose injuries were not life-threatening, were taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway by two ambulances from Pace and Tri-Town Rescue, McCausland stated in a press release.

Hainey said the accident occurred when the driver lost control of a black 1988 Toyota 4Runner on a sharp corner on Tuelltown Road between its intersections with Butterfield and Ellingwood roads. He was traveling west.

Shortly after the crash, a passerby came onto the scene and called 911, Hainey said. Three of the boys were seen walking around after the wreck, he added.

Police believe all of the youths were wearing safety belts.

Assisting state police were Oxford County and Paris police, and Paris and West Paris firefighters.

Roads into the area were shut down for about four hours while police reconstructed the accident, placing numbered yellow markers on the road, indicating the fishtailing path of all four wheels in the turn.

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