JAY – A Jay man was accused of crashing a truck and fleeing the scene on Plaisted Road on Thursday night.

Police charged Larry Pond, 31, of Plaisted Road in Jay by summons with failure to report an accident by the quickest means, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and operating after suspension of license, Jay police Cpl. Jeff Fournier said Friday.

A report of an accident came in about 9 p.m. Thursday, and when police arrived they found a 2005 GMC pickup lying upside down on a guardrail.

The truck had hit the guardrails head-on after it had gone off the road and down a hill, but nobody was around the truck, he said.

Some residents reported seeing a person running toward East Jay Road, which is also off Route 133.

Fournier said Wilton police were called to assist, and Franklin County Sheriff’s Cpl. Nate Bean was requested with tracking dog and tracked the person down East Jay Road to Soules Hill Road to Route 156 where the track stopped.

It was 1 to two miles from the accident scene, he said, and police believe the man was picked up by a vehicle.

With help from the registered truck owner, Lewis Gaboury of Farmington, police learned that Pond had been using the truck for about six months, Fournier said.