PARIS – A 47-year-old High Street woman was injured Tuesday and her dog is missing after her truck shot across Route 26, rolled 30 feet down an embankment and landed with its nose in the Little Androscoggin River north of Market Square.

Brenda Budrock was conscious and screaming when she was removed from the truck and flown to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. An attempt to get information on her condition Tuesday night was unsuccessful.

Police Chief David Verrier said police are investigating whether a medical condition may have prompted Budrock’s erratic driving. He said several calls came to police about an erratic driver on Route 26 shortly before the truck crashed near the bridge over the river. The truck plummeted down the embankment and flipped onto its side.

April Payne of Wheeler Street in Paris said she encountered the Ford pickup near Ripley and Fletcher Co. car dealership on Route 26 about noon, and watched as the driver passed another car and continued down the road, crossing over the centerline and narrowly missing half a dozen other motorists. She said she thought it was a man behind the wheel.

“I hit my horn. He went back over. He was just out of control,” Payne said as she watched rescuers at the accident scene near Hobb’s Lucky Lanes bowling alley parking lot.

“I almost hit him head-on,” Payne said, as the truck came right toward her. “He was all over the road.”

Verrier said rescuers broke the rear window of the truck and pulled her through it to get her out. The husky dog may have escaped through a partially open window on the passenger side. Witnesses first on the scene told rescuers they saw a dog running down the road.

Budrock was lifted 30 feet up to the road, put into a PACE ambulance and taken to the medical helicopter next to Colby’s Arctic Cat on Route 26. From there she was flown to CMMC.

The truck was pulled out using chains tied to a John Deere tractor operated by Willie Buffington of High Street and a tow truck provided by Paul Hodsdon of Paul’s Auto Towing in Norway. The weight of the pickup truck initially snapped the cable on the tow truck, narrowly missing Hodsdon, who jumped to avoid the cable.

Booms were placed in the river to contain leaked fuel. The state Department of Environmental Protection was notified of the spill, as is mandatory, Verrier said.

Firefighters from Paris and Oxford responded to the scene.