LEWISTON – An Auburn woman was removed through the windshield of her truck Tuesday morning after the vehicle flipped onto its side on Grove Street.

Penny Dick, 41, escaped with bumps and bruises in the 9 a.m. wreck, but for several minutes, she remained hanging from her seat belt inside the overturned pickup.

Police said Dick was driving to work at Burger King on the Maine Turnpike at about 9 a.m. when she lost control of her Ford Ranger on a roadway slicked with ice and slush.

When police and rescue crews arrived, Dick was in the driver’s seat, hanging from the seatbelt. Firefighters decided that removing the windshield was the easiest way to remove her from the truck and she was pulled to safety.

Dick was examined for bumps and bruises and then given a ride to Burger King. Lewiston police officer Jane Huffman was investigating the crash and said road conditions contributed. Lewiston Public Works crews went to Grove Street and spread sand on trouble spots.

Police said slippery roads resulted in a handful of minor accidents in both Lewiston and Auburn but none resulted in serious injury. In Auburn, a car that slid off Young’s Corner Road Wednesday afternoon resulted in traffic problems but no injury.

Police said Patricia M. Carberry, 46, of Glen Burnie, Md., was driving east on Young’s Corner Road when she lost control of her car in snow and slush. The vehicle slid off the roadway and into a group of trees. Carberry was not hurt. Police blocked the road for a short time as rescue crews responded.

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