WOODSTOCK — A Rumford man, child and female passenger were injured Saturday afternoon when their minivan veered off Route 26 and collided with a large rock ledge, police said.
Driver Joseph Jacobson, 23, and the other two who were not identified, suffered nonlife-threatening injuries and were taken by PACE ambulance to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway, Oxford County Cpl. Justin Brown said at the scene.
Brown said he didn’t have the names of the child and female passenger because initially, emergency responders were told Jacobson and the child were the only two people in the van. Later, he said he learned about the other passenger.
Brown said the accident was witnessed at 2:27 p.m. He said that according to the witness, the 2005 Dodge Caravan was traveling west when it veered across the centerline and the eastbound lane and into a drainage ditch.
Evidence at the scene showed the van’s path up the drainage ditch, narrowly missing a large boulder before it collided with the ledge, shearing off a chunk of it.
After the collision, the minivan went airborne about 10 feet and came to rest half in the ditch and shoulder of the eastbound lane.
Brown said the accident remained under investigation.
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