MEXICO – A duck on the run caused a two-vehicle wreck late Friday afternoon on Route 2.
There were no apparent injuries. Med-Care Ambulance medics examined two passengers who complained of pain but did not want to go to a hospital.
Mexico Patrolman Dean Benson said the accident happened at 5 p.m. at 297 River Road, also known as Route 2.
Driver Margaret Booth, 62, passenger Kenneth Davignon, 56, and a sheltie dog were headed east in a 2002 Ford Focus. Benson said Booth and Davignon, both of Bristol, Vt., were headed to Nova Scotia for a vacation.
Traveling behind them in a 2001 Chevrolet pickup truck towing an all-terrain vehicle on a flatbed trailer was driver James White, 37, of Dixfield, and passenger Lyle White, 67. They also were traveling with a sheltie dog.
“Apparently, a duck ran into the road, she slammed the brakes on, and he could not stop in time and rear-ended her,” Benson said.
The Ford went off the highway, narrowly missed a utility pole, jumped the curb and stopped on the lawn at 300 River Road.
The ATV landed in the road.
Benson said Davignon complained of neck pain; Lyle White of stomach pain.
A Mexico firefighter and Oxford County Sheriff’s Deputy Chancey Libby directed traffic.
Benson said the Ford was totaled, and the truck sustained an estimated $4,000 damage.
A nearby resident took the vacationing couple and their dog into his home.
The duck fled.
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