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AUBURN – Police were continuing their investigation Sunday into a Saturday night crash that sent four men to the hospital.

One of those men, Michael Bonetti, 45, was in critical condition Sunday night, police said. The other three were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police added.

The crash happened about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on Garfield Road, slightly south of Perkins Ridge Road.

According to a preliminary accident report filed by Officer Matthew Dailey, the quartet was hurt when a 1997 Ford pickup owned and driven by Reginald Garrison III, 42, of 125 Shaw Hill Road in Minot went out of control.

Dailey’s report said Garrison was driving south on Garfield Road at a “speed higher than the posted limit.”

On Saturday night, police said alcohol may also have been a factor in the wreck.

According to Dailey’s report, the truck left the roadway and glanced off a tree before vaulting through the air and across a driveway where the pickup clipped another tree. That forced the truck to rotate in mid-air, ejecting two of the four men from the cab.

Auburn firefighters called to the scene had to extricate the other two men.

The truck came to rest on its roof in the northbound lane of Garfield Road, Dailey noted.

Police said Bonetti was the most seriously injured of the four. Details regarding where he was seated in the truck as well as where he lives weren’t immediately available, police said. Also hurt in the crash, according to police, were Richie Hunt, 41, of Auburn, and Seth Watson, 21, of Minot. A nursing supervisor at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston said Watson was in stable condition.

Neither CMMC nor St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston had any information regarding Bonetti, Garrison or Hunt.

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