NEW SHARON – A Waterville soldier was injured Friday afternoon when a truck driven by a Livermore Falls man attempted to pass a line of slowing cars on Route 2.
Bruce Roscoe, 45, of Waterville, a recruiter for the U.S. Army National Guard, was driving a 2012 Ford Focus registered to the government and had the left blinker on to turn on to Lane Road, Franklin County Sheriff’s Cpl. Nate Bean said.
Vehicles, including a tractor-trailer, were slowing behind him when a black pickup truck driven by Steven Corliss, 58, of Livermore Falls attempted to pass all of them and struck the driver’s side of the Ford Focus, Bean said.
Both vehicles spun around with the truck ending up in some trees and the car ending up in the southbound lane.
New Sharon firefighters had to open the driver’s side door to get Roscoe out, he said. He complained of head and neck pain and was taken by a NorthStar Emergency Medical Services ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Bean said.
Corliss was driving a 1999 Ford F-150 registered to Hard Rock Landscaping of North Conway, N.H. The truck had front-end side damage, he said.
The car was heavily damaged in the driver’s side front.
Corliss was cited for unsafe passing, Bean said.
Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. assisted Bean at the scene.
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