Accidents

• Nearly $6,500 damage to state property and about $3,200 damage to two trucks was caused Feb. 22 when a 2006 Kenworth tractor-trailer truck driven by Terry Cochrane, 45, of Detroit, Mich., ran over guardrails and hit a utility pole.

Mexico police Sgt. Roy Hodsdon said the accident occurred at 8:25 a.m. when Cochrane tried to turn from the Mexico side of the Peru/Mexico bridge onto Route 2 toward Dixfield. He said the rear tires of the empty flatbed apparently hit the guardrails, and a utility pole that then took down a second utility pole. About $1,200 damage was done to Cochrane’s truck.

Hodsdon said Cochrane apparently did not stop.

Cochrane then proceeded to Irving Forest Products in Dixfield where he loaded up the truck. Hodsdon said an investigation led him to the truck at Irving about noon where Cochrane was summoned on a charge of leaving the scene of a property damage accident.

Sgt. Tim Holland of the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office assisted with the case.

Hodsdon said traffic was shut down for nearly two hours.

A second truck, with a cherry picker loaded onto it, driven by Stephen Greenleaf, 54, of Livermore Falls and owned by John Castonguay Trucking of Livermore, was also involved.

Hodsdon said wires became caught in the cherry picker, causing about $2,000 damage.

Cochrane is scheduled to appear in 11th District Court, Rumford, on May 6.