OXFORD – A state Department of Transportation employee suffered minor injuries Wednesday when the DOT patrol truck he was riding in was struck on Route 121.
State Police Trooper James Nolan said Daniel Vining of Poland suffered minor injuries. Vining was a passenger in the patrol truck driven by DOT employee Philip Dunn, also of Poland. Both men work in DOT’s Poland office.
The DOT truck was traveling south on Route 121 when it was struck on the passenger-side door by a 1997 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Richard Matthews of Oxford.
Matthews was pulling out of the driveway of a day-care facility located next to the Oxford Town Office, Nolan said.
Matthews and Dunn were not injured.
Oxford Fire Department extricated Vining from the vehicle with rescue equipment.
He was transported by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, where he was treated and released.
Nolan said the DOT truck sustained “severe passenger-side damage” estimated at $3,000. Damage to Matthews’ truck was estimated between $6,000 and $7,000.
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