MEXICO – A Bryant Pond woman was charged Friday with drunken driving after the Ford F150 pickup truck she was driving east on Route 2 sheared off a utility pole.

Investigating officer Bernadette Dickinson charged Lauretta Taylor, 47, with operating under the influence. Dickinson then drove Taylor to Oxford County Jail in Paris, and she was released on $500 unsecured bail. She will be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. June 5 in Rumford District Court, a jail official said Saturday.

Two gravestones in a roadside cemetery were also damaged in the 2 p.m. accident, which snarled traffic on the busy highway.

Mexico police Chief Jim Theriault said Saturday that neither Taylor nor her passenger, whose name he didn’t know, were injured.

On Saturday morning, line crews were still busy reattaching downed wires to a new pole.

Also, the Dixfield driver of a Chevrolet Z24 that struck and downed another utility pole on Route 2 at Newton Brook about three hours after the Mexico accident on Friday afternoon was apparently treated and released from Rumford Hospital.

A nursing supervisor said Saturday afternoon that Bob Anderson was no longer a patient.