RUMFORD – More than an estimated $18,000 in damage was sustained by six vehicles, a tractor-trailer and a convenience store roof during a rash of property-damage-only accidents this past week.

• At 8:03 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, a 1998 Toyota pickup driven by Arthur Gallant, 58, of Rumford, and a 1999 Dodge mini-van taxi operated by James McDowell, 38, of Rumford, collided on Waldo Street, Sgt. David Bean said Friday.

McDowell’s taxi sustained an estimated $2,500 in damage; Gallant’s snowplow sustained minor damage.

• At 2:58 p.m. on Feb. 11, while attempting to turn around, a 2004 Freightliner tractor-trailer owned by ROEHL Transport Inc. and driven by John Valen, 50, of Leominster, Mass., struck the FoodTrend convenience store and gas station roof over the fuel pumps, Bean said.

Damage to both the roof and big rig was estimated at $1,000 each.

• An investigation continues into a hit-and-run accident that happened at 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 in the former Agway parking lot on Railroad Street. A 2006 Ford Mustang owned by Rumford Falls Times Managing Editor Bruce Farrin, sustained an estimated $2,500 in damage while parked, Bean said.

The suspect vehicle may have been a dark colored Jeep Cherokee reported stolen out of Mexico and later found by an Oxford County deputy off the side of a road in Peru, the sergeant added.

• At 4:07 p.m. on Feb. 9, three vehicles were involved in an accident at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Waldo Street.

A 1998 Dodge Dakota pickup truck operated by Thomas H. Arsenault, 73, of Mexico, sustained an estimated $2,500 in damage, a 1998 GMC pickup truck driven by Scott Kenney, 36, of Rumford, sustained an estimated $6,500 in damage, and a 1991 Toyota pickup truck operated by Norman A. Hutchinson, 46, of Mexico, sustained an estimated $2,500 in damage, Bean said.

• In other unusual police news, a report of a frozen body in a vehicle parked on Penobscot Street at 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 15, turned out to be something else.

“It started out as a death scene with a car, but when we got there, we found a woman who had fallen in a snowbank and couldn’t get up. The Rumford resident was cold, but not dead,” Bean said.

She was helped to her feet, and taken into an apartment to warm up until medical help arrived, he added.