MECHANIC FALLS – A Harrison woman was unhurt when she tried to avoid an oncoming truck on Route 121 late Wednesday afternoon and struck a pole.

The highway was blocked from Jordan Road in Mechanic Falls to Route 26 in Oxford from shortly before 5 p.m. until Thursday morning, Sgt. Paul Harrison said.

Annette Fuller, 19, of 33 Haskell Hill Road in Harrison was not hurt when her 2001 Nissan struck a pole beside the eastbound lane and snapped it.

Harrison said Fuller was headed into Mechanic Falls when a black pickup truck coming toward her crossed the center line on a corner just west of the turnoff to the Sawyer Memorial Bridge.

“She pulled to the right and that’s when she hooked her tires” into the shoulder and hit a pole on her side of the highway, Harrison said.

A driver behind Fuller witnessed the black truck moving into Fuller’s lane, he added, but could not get a description or license plate number.

Fuller had her seat belt on, and the car’s air bags deployed.

With those safety features “you walk away from those things” Harrison said.

The car was demolished.

“She did say her knee was sore and her nose was sore,” so United Ambulance personnel checked her but she did not require treatment, the sergeant said.

The broken pole sent wires into the highway, closing it to traffic from the intersection with Route 121 in Oxford to the Jordon Road in Mechanic Falls.

As of 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, Central Maine Power Co. and Verizon had reattached their wires to the new pole, but a third company with wires attached to the broken pole had yet to arrive to transfer theirs so the road could not be reopened.

Harrison said he expected the work would be done and the highway opened by daylight.

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