PERU – One of three Peru youths injured in an early-morning Labor Day crash on Dickvale Road has been charged with drunken driving.
Speed and alcohol were involved, investigating state Trooper Daniel Hanson said Wednesday.
He charged the 17-year-old driver of a 1988 Chevy pickup truck that struck a tree with operating under the influence, being unbelted and in violation of an intermediate license.
His license was less than 60 days old, Hanson said.
The teenager was released to his parents, and is to be arraigned in October in Rumford District Court. A date had yet to be set.
The driver and his passengers, a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, were all taken by private vehicle to Rumford hospital soon after the crash, suffering from non-life-threatening injuries, Hanson said. They were treated and released later that day.
Hanson refused to name the passengers, saying more charges are pending further investigation. Names of youths under the age of 18 are not released if they are charged with a crime.
Hanson said the crash happened at 1:30 a.m. on a dirt section of Dickvale Road, two miles west of LaCroix Road.
“They were coming around a corner and went right into a large pine tree,” he said.
“No one was wearing seat belts, so they went into the windshield, but nobody was ejected,” he added.
Hanson said the youths left the scene to seek medical attention before emergency crews arrived. The truck was totaled.
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