DIXFIELD – A Dixfield man was being treated in the emergency room at Rumford Hospital on Friday night, nearly three hours after police said he was ejected from his car off Route 2 on a steep bank of Newton Brook.

Med-Care Ambulance Director Dean Milligan said at the scene that Bob Anderson, whose age was not available, did not have life-threatening injuries, but was taken by Med-Care to the hospital.

Dixfield police Chief Richard A. Pickett said at the scene that Anderson lost control of a Chevrolet Z24 while rounding a curve.

The westbound car went off the shoulder, got caught in snow and slush and slid nearly head-on into a utility pole, he said. There was no evidence of braking.

The impact catapulted the car around, slamming the driver’s-side door into a guardrail. The car then dropped down a steep bank. The bottom of the pole was wedged between the car’s rear wheel and rear end, which was partially in the brook.

Pickett said he didn’t know at what point Anderson was ejected. The injured man climbed up to the road on his own.

“He had a bad bruise on his left cheek, was coherent and walked to the stretcher,” Pickett said.

Route 2 was shut down for about an hour before emergency responders left, unable to haul the car up to the road because a Central Maine Power crew had not arrived to turn off power to the pole. When they did, Pickett said the highway would be shut down again and traffic routed around the area on Canton Point and Common roads.

Three hours earlier, a Ford F150 pickup truck crashed off Route 2 in Mexico, severing a utility pole and destroying two gravestones in a roadside cemetery, officials said. Milligan said at the Dixfield accident that neither the truck’s passenger or driver were taken to the hospital. Mexico police did not return calls seeking information.