HEBRON – After crashing his ATV in a remote area, 18-year-old Timothy Robbins of Hebron wandered overnight through the woods before walking out onto Goodrich Road Wednesday afternoon.
Mark Latti, spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said Robbins was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital, where he received stitches to his head.
Other than that he appeared to be in good shape, he said.
Latti said the Maine Warden Service first heard that Robbins was injured when ATV rider Victor Ortiz saw Robbins around 6 p.m. Tuesday on a trail off Sodom Road, which runs between Hebron and Buckfield.
He told wardens that Robbins was bleeding and looked shaken.
Ortiz told Robbins, an acquaintance, he was leaving to get help and then rode two miles back to the main road, according to Latti.
When wardens and Ortiz got back to the spot more than 90 minutes later, Robbins had disappeared, with only traces of blood and a wrecked ATV at the scene, Latti said.
Wardens fanned through the woods around Owls Head Mountain in Buckfield on ATVs, on foot and with dogs, Latti said.
Investigators also asked local hospitals if someone matching Robbins’ description had been admitted, and they questioned family and friends about his whereabouts.
On Wednesday, the search expanded to about 50 people when Robbins was finally found.
“He walked out of the woods, off of Streaked Mountain and onto Goodrich Road, where family members saw him,” Latti said.
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