RUMFORD – A Rumford woman struck in a crosswalk early Thursday afternoon on lower Congress Street was in stable condition late Thursday night at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, a nursing supervisor said.

Amanda Bowers, 58, suffered an injury to her right side and possibly fractured her right arm after being struck by a 2004 Ford Ranger pickup truck driven by Andrew Kennedy, 58, of Rumford, Patrolman Brock Clukey said late Thursday afternoon.

Witness Fred Arsenault, who lives in the Muskie Building opposite where the accident occurred, said he was sitting on the curb enjoying the warm weather and sunshine when it happened.

He said Bowers and another woman entered the crosswalk at the same instant that Kennedy pulled out of a parking space near the crosswalk.

“One lady was ahead of the other one and he pulled out and rolled forward and the sun blinded him,” Bowers said, with which, Clukey agreed.

“As soon as he hit her, he stopped. To me, it was just an accident. She wasn’t looking when he hit her and knocked her down. The other lady hollered at him and he stopped. (Bowers) had a broken arm, that’s what the policeman told me,” Arsenault said of Patrolman Paul Casey, who assisted Clukey.

Immediately after being notified of the accident, Rumford firefighters Mark Tripp and Corey Mills and Deputy Chiefs Ben Byam and Scott Holmes quickly arrived, secured the scene and kept Bowers from moving her head or neck.

Firefighters and Med-Care Ambulance medics applied a temporary cast to her right arm and lifted her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.

She was taken to Rumford Hospital, then later transferred to the Lewiston hospital, a Rumford Hospital nursing supervisor said Thursday night.

Clukey said no charges would be filed and there was no damage to the truck. Kennedy wasn’t injured either.

The accident attracted several onlookers, some of whom helped direct traffic around the accident on the one-way street.