JAY – Two men were injured, one critically, Monday morning when a pickup truck collided with an unloaded tractor-trailer at Macomber Hill Road and Route 133. The road was closed and traffic rerouted from about 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., police said.

Adam Bennett, 29, of Corinna, driver of the pickup truck, was traveling east on Macomber Hill Road and failed to yield at the intersection, police Cpl. Jeffrey Fournier said. Bennett’s truck struck the tractor-trailer traveling north on Route 133 broadside, where the driver’s door and diesel tanks are located.

Bennett, who had head and internal injuries, was thrown about 30 feet from his 2000 full-size Dodge truck after it went into the southbound ditch on Route 133.

The 2007 Freightliner, driven by Mark Daggett, 54, of Wilton and owned by J.L. Brochu Inc. of Stratton, skidded up the road a ways after the impact, the corporal said.

One of its tanks ruptured and leaked a large amount of diesel fuel over the road, Fournier said.

Several NorthStar Emergency Medical Services ambulances and medics responded to the scene to treat the injured and helped get Bennett ready to be flown to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

The medical helicopter was able to land in Donald Wright’s farm field, near the accident scene, Fournier said.

Bennett was listed in critical condition at the hospital early Monday afternoon, a CMMC spokeswoman said.

He had been on his way home from work as a construction worker at Verso Paper when the accident occurred, Fournier said.

Daggett complained of injuries but declined transport to a hospital, he said.

Jay police were assisted by several agencies including Jay Fire Rescue Department, Wilton police and Franklin County sheriff’s deputies and Maine State Police, who reconstructed the accident.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection was called because of the diesel spill, and the Maine Department of Transportation sanded the area because the diesel was seeping into the road.

The pickup truck was totaled. The tractor-trailer received damage to fuel tanks, the driver’s side of the cab and some of the frame, Fournier said.

The accident remains under investigation, he said.