JAY – Police say some people were still without phone service Friday morning after an overloaded logging truck took down utility wires along Route 133 on Thursday. The driver and truck owner both were cited by police.

The road was closed for several hours after the 11:39 a.m. accident.

Driver Brian Hanson, 50, of Leeds was hauling a load of tree-length wood north to Farmington and the wood caught utility lines at the intersection of Plaisted and Macomber Hill roads, Jay police Sgt. Troy Young said.

A utility pole snapped in half and it, along with the wires, fell to the ground. The wires also fell onto a pickup truck following behind the logging truck, he said.

The driver of the pickup, Jeffrey Blair, 43, of Turner, just narrowly turned on to Plaisted Road before the cross wires came down, Young said.

The pulp truck kept going northward, he said, until the wood clipped a residential telephone line about a mile down the road.

Hanson said he had seen that wire break and stopped, but didn’t know about the initial downed lines, Young said.

Wilton police officer Blaine Rackliff held the truck, Young said, and Jay police Chief Larry White responded to that scene.

Firefighters and police rerouted traffic from both ends of Route 133, near Lomie Rivers Road on one end and Davis Road on the other.

Young said he charged Hanson by summons with a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of a property damage accident.

Maine State Police Commercial Vehicle Unit troopers were called in to check the truck and trailer owned by Gerard Castonguay of Livermore Falls.

After inspection, the truck was not allowed to operate because it was declared unsafe, Young said.

The load on the truck’s trailer was more than 107,000 pounds and state police cited the owner of the truck on violations of exceeding weight and height limits, Young said.

Another logging truck was called so the wood could be partially unloaded, then the unsafe truck was allowed to drive to a safer place near Bean’s Corner where it was unloaded completely before it was towed away, he said.

The pickup Blair was driving was able to get out from under the lines, but there were some scratches on its top, he said.

Electricity was restored but some phone lines were still not hooked up yet, he said Friday morning.

No one was injured, Young said.