TURNER – The driver of a pickup truck that collided with an ambulance on Route 4 in July, killing a paramedic and injuring two other people, was legally drunk at the time, police said Wednesday.

Christopher Boutin, 29, of Turner could face charges in the July 5 wreck that killed Allan Parson, the 46-year-old paramedic who was working on a patient at the time of the crash.

Police said Boutin pulled off Potato Road and into the path of the ambulance, which was driving down Route 4 with emergency lights on.

Parsons was killed on impact and 68-year-old Med-Care ambulance driver Arlene Greenleaf was seriously injured in the wreck.

Boutin, who was driving a pickup in the early morning crash, was also seriously hurt, with head and other injuries. He has remained at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston since the crash.

Boutin’s condition was not available Wednesday night at the request of his family. Police said Boutin spent part of his time at the hospital in a coma, although it was believed he was recovering from those injuries.

While investigating the fatality, police took blood samples from both drivers and sent them to be tested for alcohol.

Those tests recently came back and revealed that Boutin was intoxicated when he crashed, police said. They declined to provide his precise blood-alcohol content.

According to a preliminary report, police said alcohol was a primary factor in the wreck as was Boutin’s failure to yield to the ambulance. No wrongdoing was found on the part of Greenleaf as she drove the emergency vehicle from a Rumford hospital to one in Lewiston, transporting a Dixfield woman who was being treated for injuries suffered in an ATV crash.

That woman, Paula Holman, slid off a gurney when the ambulance crashed adding injuries to the broken bones she had suffered previously.

The Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department investigated the crash and has forwarded its findings to the District Attorney’s Office for review. Prosecutors will make the decision whether to file any charges against Boutin.