PARIS – A young couple driving home from Christmas shopping were hurt when their van slid across Oxford Road and slammed into a house Tuesday afternoon.

“I’m OK, but my neck kind of hurts,” said Josh Mason, of 21 Bridge St., West Paris, as he stood by the 2003 Ventura Chevrolet van that was crunched into the side of a house at 325 Oxford Road.

Mason said he was a passenger in the van being driven by his fiancé, Justine Laurinaitis, 22, of 29 Main St., West Paris, when a car coming eastbound suddenly stopped to avoid a dog in the road.

“We just slid,” said Mason pointing to the skid marks in the snow that crossed the narrow westbound side of the road. The front of the van plowed into the house.

Laurinaitis was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway after complaining of pain in her neck, Paris police officer Anthony Keach said.

A woman in the house, identified as Terry Walker, was shaken, but uninjured.

“She said the whole house shook,” Mason said.

Keach said the second vehicle involved, a 2004 blue Ford F150, did not stop. No other information was available on who was in the second vehicle or its whereabouts. Keach said the truck apparently stopped for the dog then continued on. Mason said the driver may not have been aware that the van slammed into the house.

The dog belonged to an unidentified neighbor.

“The guy just grabbed his pug and went into his house,” said Mason as he put his Christmas presents in the back of Keach’s cruiser and prepared to go to the hospital to see his fiancé. The couple have two children, ages 2 and 4, who were not in the van at the time.

The accident is under investigation by Keach.