JAY – A Jay man was injured Sunday when his car left Route 133 and struck a stone wall, went airborne and hit three trees before coming to rest with its rear-end suspended in a tree.

Scott Heikkinen, 43, had reached down to pick up a CD and the next thing he knew he was off the road, but by then it was too late, police officer Stephen Wilkinson said.

The accident occurred as Heikkinen was heading north on the road, just after Davis Road, where there is a slight corner, Wilkinson said.

“Unfortunately, by the time he looked up, he went straight through the corner and never even turned,” the officer said.

The 1992 Bonneville left the road and hit a stone wall, bounced and went airborne then clipped off a beech tree about 8 inches in diameter about 8 feet in the air, Wilkinson said.

After that the car hit an ash tree 6 inches to 8 inches in diameter and knocked that completely over, he said.

After the car hit those two trees, it spun sideways and struck a birch tree where it came to final rest with just its nose and front tires touching the ground and the rear-end suspended in the air by part of another tree it had clipped, Wilkinson said.

Heikkinen was out of the car walking around when emergency services arrived on the scene, he said.

He had a sprained ankle and a bruised left side. A NorthStar Emergency Medical Services ambulance took Heikkinen to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Wilkinson said.

Firefighters directed traffic around the scene and cut the trees down so the vehicle could be towed, Wilkinson said.