WILTON — A driver was injured Tuesday morning when he fell asleep. The truck he was driving went off Route 133, traveled approximately 6,700-feet through a pasture, struck trees and finally stopped at the edge of the woods.
Bernard Ridley, 54, of Livermore complained of back, neck and head injuries when emergency personnel arrived, Wilton Police Officer Ryan Richardson said.
He was taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital by NorthStar Ambulance and later transferred to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, according to a hospital spokesman.
About 10:30 a.m. Ridley was driving a 2003 Chevy truck south on Route 133. Just south of Hammond Road and across from the Willard Douglas farm, he fell asleep went off the road and traveled about 6,700 feet across a pasture, Richardson said.
His truck hit at least three trees along the side of the pasture and hit a clump of trees at the bottom of the field where the vehicle became entangled in a cattle fence, he said. The truck came to rest against a pine tree.
The driver apparently never woke as his vehicle traveled the field, he said.
Maynard Webster of New Sharon, who was traveling in the opposite direction, saw the vehicle go off the road and told police he watched the vehicle. He never saw a brake light even after it hit the trees, Richardson said.
NorthStar Ambulance personnel, Wilton firefighters and Richardson lugged the driver on a backboard up through the field to a waiting ambulance on Route 133.
Farmington Towing drove down into the field and towed the truck out. The vehicle was totaled in the accident, Richardson said.
The estimated distance the vehicle traveled was adjusted in this article.
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