BRIDGTON – A Freeport woman, her four children and two of their friends remained at Maine Medical Center in Portland on Tuesday with injuries when their SUV collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 302 during Monday’s snowstorm.

Margaret Samuelson, 39, of 54 Stevens Farm Road was listed in fair condition Tuesday night, a nursing supervisor said.

Bridgton patrol officer Mac McCormick said Samuelson was taking her four children and their two friends, also from the Freeport area, to ski at Shawnee Peak in Bridgton. She lost control of the 2002 Ford Expedition about 11:30 a.m. less than a half mile from the mountain.

The names of the children, all between the ages of 8 and 15, were not being released pending the investigation, McCormick said, therefore their conditions could not be obtained from the hospital.

Matthew Libby, 22, of 592 Speck Pond Road in Porter, the driver of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. rig from Lewiston, was not hurt, nor was his passenger, 22-year-old Michael Dahms, the investigator said. Dahms address was not available Tuesday night.

Both were belted in the cab as they headed east to deliver a load in Bridgton, the officer said.

Samuelson was headed west when she lost control of the SUV, which slid sideways into the path of the oncoming tractor-trailer that was headed downhill, McCormick said. The rig hit the passenger side of the SUV and jackknifed on the highway.

The SUV, he said, “on impact, slid down the road about 40 feet and entered the driveway of The Ski Shop, slid across the parking lot, coming to rest on the entrance to Stackem Road. All seven people were entrapped and had to be basically cut out. They were all seat-belted,” he said.

“You’re talking a lot of weight,” McCormick said, speaking of the number of people in the SUV and all the ski equipment they were hauling. The impact “folded most of the body around the doors,” jamming them shut. Rescuers used a wrecker to start removing the doors until a hydraulic rescue tool arrived with firefighters.

The injured were taken to Bridgton and Conway, N.H., hospitals and then moved to Portland later.

The SUV is registered to Duncan Machinery Movers of Lexington, Ky., a company owned by Samuelson’s husband, who flew from Kentucky to Maine late Monday, the officer said. The SUV is impounded as part of the investigation.

The Coca-Cola truck was inspected by the state police commercial vehicle division and found to be without defects, he said.

“The cause of accident right now is just weather-related,” McCormick said. “It was snowing very heavily at the time.”

He said he does not expect to file any charges, adding, “I don’t see it going any further.”

Rescue personnel from Bridgton, Fryeburg, Naples and North Conway were called to the scene, along with firefighters from those towns, plus Harrison.