DIXFIELD – Three people sent to different hospitals after the vehicle they were in hit a moose and then a utility pole Friday have been released.

Jenny Ann Rusu, 21, of Pennsylvania, suffered multiple lacerations and head injuries Friday night and was taken to Central Maine Medical Center. She was treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday.

Rusu was trapped in the front seat of a car for an hour Friday night along with the driver, Matthew Chrissikos, 22, of Dixfield. The two were in the car with downed, live electrical wires draped tightly across the car’s smashed hood, said Maine State Police Trooper Daniel Hanson. Firefighters could not remove them from the car until a Central Maine Power crew arrived and cut off the power, Hanson said.

Chrissikos was taken to the Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, where he was treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday.

A back-seat passenger, Joshua Pacrie, 21, of Mexico, was taken to Rumford Hospital, where he was treated and released Friday.

The crash happened about 8:48 p.m. when the car hit the moose near the center of the road, Hanson said. The moose was thrown into the windshield, which peeled back the car’s roof, said Oxford County Deputy Michael Halacy.

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