GRAY — Two young women from Lewiston and Minnesota were injured — one critically — Friday morning when a car went off the Maine Turnpike and rolled multiple times, authorities said.
A car sits Friday beside the Maine Turnpike in Gray after rolling multiple times and pinning the driver under it, police said. Maine Department of Public Safety photo
According to a media statement released by Maine Public Safety spokeswoman Shannon Moss, the driver of the 2008 Hyundai Sonata, who was a minor from Minneapolis with a driver’s permit, was headed north shortly before 7:30 a.m. and attempted to change lanes, but didn’t see a car in the travel lane until the last moment.
She “jerked the wheel left to avoid hitting the other vehicle, overcorrected right, and went off the roadway,” Moss added.
She was ejected from the car, which rolled multiple times, coming to rest on the lower half of her body. She was flown from Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she was listed in critical condition.
Her name was not released.
The passenger, 23-year-old Johoro Ibrahim of Lewiston, sustained a head laceration and was being treated at the Lewiston hospital. Ibrahim holds a driver’s permit, according to Moss.
Maine law requires that an operator of a vehicle who holds only a permit must have a licensed driver who is at least 20 years of age, with more than two years of experience, holding a valid license, sitting in the front passenger seat, and not impaired, Moss wrote.
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