MEXICO – A Rumford man was injured Thursday morning after the pickup truck he was driving crossed the centerline on Route 2 and sideswiped the entire length of a Rumford tractor-trailer truck hauling garbage, police said.

David Giberson, 43, of South Rumford Road had to be extricated from his 1993 black GMC pickup truck by Rumford firefighters using hydraulic tools, Sgt. Roy Hodsdon said.

Giberson was taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford Hospital, where he was treated and released Thursday afternoon, according to hospital spokeswoman Jane Bubar.

Charles Burnham Jr., 70, of Ellis River Road in Rumford, the driver of a 2006 Kenworth T800 tractor-trailer owned by the town of Rumford, was uninjured.

About 10 a.m., Burnham was driving east on Route 2 with a full load of nonhazardous solid waste, carrying it from Rumford to Norridgewock, when, according to witnesses, Giberson’s westbound truck crossed the centerline and hit the big rig near the intersection of the Peru bridge road over the Androscoggin River, Hodsdon said.

He estimated damage to the rig at $4,000; the pickup was totaled. Several Mexico firefighters responded, cleaning up spilled fluids and diesel fuel, and debris that was scattered for several hundred feet.

Traffic was limited to one lane and backed up for a mile in either direction an hour later.