A tractor-trailer carrying wine overturned Thursday morning on the Maine Turnpike in Litchfield. Submitted photo
LITCHFIELD — A Maine Turnpike worker escaped serious injury Thursday when a tractor-trailer, half loaded with wine, sideswiped a turnpike truck about 9:45 a.m. at mile marker 92 north in Litchfield.
According to Maine State Police, the turnpike pickup truck was parked in the breakdown lane with amber lights flashing. The driver and passenger had finished picking up trash when the northbound tractor-trailer truck, driven by 59-year-old William Rodney Harrington of Hartford, Connecticut, drifted into the breakdown lane hitting the rumble strip. The noise alerted the workers who were able to get into the ditch safely. The tractor-trailer sideswiped the pickup and continued into the ditch and rolled onto the passenger side.
A turnpike worker, 43-year-old Michael Robinson, was hit in the leg from flying debris from the crash, police said. He was treated at an area hospital for minor injuries, as was Harrington.
The truck spilled its load of wine in the ditch.
A section of the northbound lanes of the Maine Turnpike were closed Thursday morning after the wreck.
Harrington was summonsed for a logbook violation and failure to move over.
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