NEWRY – Three people were hurt Monday night in accidents on Route 2 in Newry and Hanover, Oxford County Sheriff’s Department corporals said Tuesday. One driver was summoned on a charge of drunken driving.

Carol A. Adley, 64, of Rumford Point was flown from a 6:04 p.m. accident on the Newry-Hanover line to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Cpl. Chancey Libby said Tuesday. She was a passenger in a 1988 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Richard Bradeen, 63, of Rumford Point, he said.

A CMMC nursing supervisor said Tuesday afternoon that Adley was not a patient there.

Libby summoned Bradeen on charge of operating under the influence but said he didn’t think alcohol caused the accident.

“He was coming down Route 26 and claims he got into a coughing fit and passed out,” Libby said. “He had a blood alcohol of .08, but I don’t think alcohol played a factor. I think he was passed out from a medical condition. There was no sign of any braking. A drunk would have at least applied brakes. He even almost passed out on me.”

Bradeen, who refused to go to a hospital, suffered leg and arm injuries. Neither he nor Adley were using safety belts, Libby added.

Bradeen “took out a telephone pole, and then a wire fell from that and hit a homeowner who was mowing the lawn. It wasn’t a power line. I think it was a guy wire. The truck then went through a couple of trees and down an embankment and, luckily, into a pile of soft dirt or gravel that stopped him from going into Bear River,” Libby said.

The pole was 25 to 30 feet off the road when sheered off at its base.

Newry firefighters also responded and set up a landing zone in a nearby field for the LifeFlight helicopter.

Bradeen will be arraigned on Nov. 6 in Rumford District Court.

The couple had other troubles this month. On the night of Aug. 16, lightning started a fire at the Rumford Point house the couple are renting, causing an estimated $5,000 in damage.

In the other accident, which happened at 9:48 a.m. Monday in Hanover near Davis Equipment, two 19-year-old men escaped serious injury after their pickup truck tangled with a loaded chip truck, Cpl. Justin Brown said Tuesday afternoon.

Shaun Hunt of Albany Township, who was driving a 1997 Toyota Tacoma, and passenger Daniel Zicarelli of Bethel were taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford Hospital, where they were treated and released, according to Brown and hospital spokeswoman Jane Bubar.

Hunt was driving east on Route 2 behind an A and S Inc. tractor-trailer from Oakland driven by Timothy Braley, 41, of Troy, Brown said.

Hunt “pulled out to pass the tractor-trailer and didn’t make it, then (his truck) ran into the side of the trailer, spun around, flipped over and landed in a ditch,” Brown said. “They weren’t wearing safety belts so they were lucky they didn’t get ejected. It’s undetermined how many times the truck rolled.”

The big rig’s trailer sustained minor cosmetic damage, but the pickup was totaled. Rumford firefighters assisted.