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A Freeport woman was seriously injured Friday when her SUV collided with a tanker truck on Route 119 in Hebron.

The 40-year-old woman was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, where she was being treated Friday night.

The man driving the Maine Energy Systems tanker truck, a 60-year-old from Bethel, was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway with injuries described as serious.

Two people were seriously injured in three-vehicle crash Friday in Hebron. (Courtesy of Oxford County Sheriff’s Office)

Others involved in the three-vehicle crash escaped unscathed or with minor injuries, police said. A 2-month-old child riding in one of the vehicles was uninjured.

Police said the Freeport woman was heading south on Route 119 in a Toyota Highlander at about 3:15 p.m. when it struck the loaded tanker truck head-on.

A 20-year-old Norway man who had been driving behind the Toyota crashed into that vehicle and then spun out of control.

A passenger in the Norway man’s Subaru Forester, a 22-year-old Norway woman, was taken to the Lewiston hospital with injuries described as not life-threatening. The 2-month-old had been riding in that vehicle, police said.

Identities of those involved in the wreck were not released as police investigate the cause of the crash. A section of Route 119, also known as Paris Road, was shut down into Friday night.

The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office was investigating the crash.

Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the...