MILTON TOWNSHIP – A 31-year-old woman was in critical condition Saturday night, after being hurt in a motorcycle crash with her father.

Margie Farrar of Milton Township was being treated for an open head wound at Central Maine Medical Center where she was taken by LifeFlight ambulance following the accident.

According to Deputy George Cayer of the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office, Margie Farrar was a passenger on the back of her father’s Harley-Davidson while he was driving drunk on a dry, straight stretch of Milton Road around 5 p.m.

Bruce W. Farrar, 55, also of Milton Township, applied the rear brakes of the bike when he saw a vehicle parked in the roadway, said Cayer. The motorcycle skidded slightly, then the back tire locked up, ejecting both father and daughter.

Neither was wearing a helmet.

According to a witness at the scene, both lay in the roadway with head injuries before rescue crews arrived.

Glenn Prescott, captain of Med-Care Ambulance, treated Margie Farrar at the scene before she was transported.

“She needed to go to a higher level of care,” said Prescott who summoned the LifeFlight helicopter when he heard the accident call go out on the scanner. He said the description of the accident scene – injured people lying in the road, no helmets, unresponsive and a bleeding head injury – warranted the call.

Bruce Farrar was taken to Rumford Hospital where he was being treated for road abrasions and other injuries.

Cayer charged him with operating under the influence and operating without a license. He said inexperience with driving a motorcycle likely contributed to the accident.