JAY – Police officer Troy Young was listed in stable condition Wednesday night with injuries suffered when he crashed while responding to a car accident.

Young, 32, of Livermore Falls, lost control of the cruiser Wednesday afternoon while driving on Woodman Hill Road in North Jay en route to a reported accident on Crash Road.

He was trapped in the cruiser with his legs pinned for about 2 hours as Jay and Livermore Falls firefighters, emergency medical responders and police worked to extricate him, Maine State Police Sgt. Vicki Gardner said.

The good news is Young is alert and talking, she said.

It appears Young crested Woodman Hill and got into the soft shoulder, overcorrected and went across the road, Gardner said.

The cruiser hit a guy wire and ended up against a birch tree, she said.

It appears the cruiser may have been partially rolling at the time but didn’t flip over, Gardner said.

Young was removed from the cruiser and put into a NorthStar Emergency Services ambulance, which took him up the hill to a LifeFlight helicopter waiting in a field behind a barn at Howes Orchard.

Police from several law enforcement agencies responded to the accident to assist Jay.

The normal protocol when an accident involves a police vehicle is to turn the investigation over to an outside agency.

Young was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston for treatment, Gardner said.

Maine State Police accident reconstructionist and mapper Trooper Darren Foster reconstructed the accident with Trooper Randy Keaten as the primary investigator, Gardner said.

The accident remains under investigation, she said.

Police were going to try to retrieve the black box in the 2005 Crown Victoria, which was totaled, she said.

The roof and the doors had to be taken off the cruiser to get Young out.

The accident Young was responding to on Crash Road turned out to be nothing, Livermore Falls police officer Maurice Drouin said. He responded to Jay’s calls after Young was in the accident and found no sign of a car accident when he arrived on Crash Road, he said.

Young, a former Androscoggin County Jail corrections officer, has been a full-time patrolman on the Jay Police Department for several years, starting out as a reserve officer in 1999.

Young’s wife, Mary, a legal secretary at the Franklin County District Attorney’s Office in Farmington, went to the scene and watched as her husband was loaded into the helicopter.

The Youngs have two children, T.J. and Tommy.

Jay police Cpl. Jeffrey Fournier said Young has done very well as a member of the Jay Police Department.