WILTON – Four people were injured Sunday morning in two back-to-back accidents, after a car collided with a utility pole, leaving live power lines strewn across Route 133.
Matthew Leclair, 29, of Livermore Falls, was driving northbound in his 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt around 6:55 a.m. when he swerved off the roadway and struck the utility pole, according to Wilton Police Chief Dennis Brown.
Motorists Douglas Wood, 43, of Belgrade, and Dean Robinson, 26, of Jay, saw the accident scene and stopped to help Leclair out of his car. Leclair and the two bystanders then stood off to the side of the road, awaiting the arrival of police and medics, a news release stated. Traveling north on Route 133 shortly after the accident was Katherine Brennick, 56, of Jay, who failed to see the wires down in the roadway as she approached the scene.
Brennick ran over the wires, causing the Toyota pickup she was driving to tip over onto its side and collide with the Chevrolet involved in the initial accident, police stated.
The second impact caused the vehicles to collide with Leclair, Wood and Robinson, who were still standing off to the side of the road, according to the news release. Brenneck was trapped in her vehicle with wires entangled in the pick up and live wires around the scene. She was extricated after Central Maine Power had cleared the wires.
All four people involved were injured and transported to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington.
Bystander Douglas Wood was stabilized at the Farmington hospital and taken by LifeFlight to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, where he was listed in fair condition Sunday night.
According to a nurse supervisor at Franklin Memorial Hospital, Robinson was in stable condition Sunday night, while Brennick and Leclair were both treated and released earlier in the day.
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