BYRON — A young man was injured Saturday when the all-terrain vehicle he was riding rolled over off No. 6 Road near the East Branch of the Swift River. Initial radio traffic at 3 p.m. to Med-Care Ambulance, Roxbury, Mexico, Rumford and Weld fire departments indicated that the 20-year-old had badly fractured a leg and […]
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Driver suffers life-threatening injuries in Rumford rollover
RUMFORD — A Bethel man was in critical condition at a Lewiston hospital late Wednesday night after his pickup truck rolled over several times off Route 232, Rumford police Cpl. Lawrence Winson said. Kasey Downs, 24, was airlifted to Central Maine Medical Center from a field near the accident scene by a LifeFlight medical helicopter, […]
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Mother, son, turtle displaced by kitchen stove fire in Mexico
MEXICO — A kitchen stove fire in a first-floor apartment at 131 Granite St. scrambled about 20 firefighters from Mexico and Rumford to the scene late Saturday afternoon. No one was injured, but one child with asthma, who said he was in the apartment when the smoky fire broke out, was given oxygen inside a […]
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Roxbury woman injured in Route 17 accident near home
ROXBURY — A Roxbury woman was taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford Hospital on Friday afternoon following a two-vehicle accident on Route 17. Med-Care Chief Dean Milligan said on scene that Susan Hodgkins, 57, suffered a minor shoulder injury. Hodgkins was driving a 2005 Ford Escape sport utility vehicle north and slowing to make a […]
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Lewiston biker suffers head injury in Route 2 crash in Rumford
RUMFORD — A Lewiston man was taken by ambulance to a Lewiston hospital late Saturday night after suffering a head injury in a motorcycle accident on Route 2. Andrew Michaud, 51, was taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford Hospital late Saturday afternoon to be airlifted by LifeFlight to Central Maine Medical Center, Rumford police Sgt. […]
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Four injured in 3 motorcycle accidents in 4 hours in Rumford, Dixfield and Mexico
RUMFORD — Two people were taken to Rumford Hospital by ambulances early Saturday evening after a motorcycle ran into the back of a car stopped on Route 2 to make a left turn onto Route 232, police said. Thomas Rackliff, 52, of Berlin, N.H., suffered a possible compound fracture of a leg, and head and […]
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Police: Sleeping Lisbon man’s truck plows into Peru cemetery
PERU — Police said a Lisbon man escaped injury when he fell asleep and his truck struck gravestones and a monument in Demeritt Cemetery beside Route 108 on Friday. Ronald Roy, 68, told police he fell asleep, Oxford County Deputy Sheriff William Nelson said on scene. The accident happened shortly before 4 p.m. Med-Care Ambulance […]
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Father of injured 9-year-old disputes Rumford police report
RUMFORD — The father of a 9-year-old Rumford boy who suffered a fractured skull June 10 when the bicycle he was riding across Falmouth Street was struck by a pickup truck, disputes the police report. Reading from Sgt. Tracey Higley’s report, Sgt. James Bernard said Tuesday that a contributing factor in the 5:34 p.m. accident […]
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Three injured, one seriously, in Rumford collision
RUMFORD — A Winthrop motorcyclist was flown to a Lewiston hospital Wednesday with injuries from a collision with a Western Maine Driving Academy car on Route 108, officials said. Two people in the car were injured and taken to Rumford Hospital. Theodore Bryant, 83, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, suffered a head injury from striking […]
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Andover woman injured in collision with moose on Route 5
ANDOVER — A local teenager was injured by flying glass Tuesday morning when the car she was driving collided with a moose on Route 5, Oxford County Deputy Sheriff Josh Wyman said Wednesday afternoon. Hali Barter, 18, was taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford Hospital for treatment, Wyman said. “A moose ran out in front […]