An all-day snowstorm kept just enough precipitation on the roadways to cause multiple accidents Monday.
A single vehicle spun off the roadway on Streaked Mountain Road in Buckfield and rolled over, trapping the driver inside. The incident occurred around 6:45 a.m. That person’s condition and name have not yet been released.
In Oxford, a three-car crash briefly closed down Route 121 after a car slid off the road, down an embankment and into a clump of trees, briefly trapping the driver inside.
According to the Oxford Police Department, Chelsea Marshall, 24, of Minot was driving a white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck northbound on Route 121 around 7:40 a.m. when the car broke down about a mile from the Mechanic Falls town line.
Police said Marshall either exited or was about to exit her car, when a red Chevrolet Cobalt following behind her, driven by 52-year old Oxford resident Faith Leduc, attempted to swerve out of the way and instead struck the bed of the pickup.
A Mazda driven by 24-year old Kallie Robinson, also of Oxford, was traveling in the southbound lane and swerved to miss Leduc, losing control of the vehicle as is bounded down the embankment.
The road was closed and traffic re-routed for about 45 minutes as crews extricated Robinson from the vehicle and eventually towed the cars from the scene.
Leduc was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway and released later in the day, according to police.
Snowfall lingred throughout the day, keeping back roads slick and causing rollovers on Hebron Road in Oxford and Paris Road in Paris.
According to Sgt. Alan Coffin of the Oxford Police Department, George Dunn, 26, of Paris was negotiating a hill and a curve when he lost control of his 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee around 7:40 p.m., lightly tapping a utility pole before rolling completely over.
According to Coffin, Dunn, his brother and another passenger were able to escape the demolished Jeep uninjured.
“Everybody walked away,” Coffin said.
In Paris, Maine State Trooper Paul Casey responded to a rollover near the Hebron/Paris town line.
Casey said Taryn Schorr, 16, was driving eastbound in a Dodge Neon around 4:13 p.m. with her friend, Chrystal Lopes, 17, when Schorr lost control of the vehicle.
According to Casey, road conditions and speed contributed to the vehicle striking the side of a ditch and rolling over.
Schorr was uninjured but Casey said Lopes complained of head pain and was taken to Stephen’s Memorial Hospital as a precaution.
Casey said the Neon sustained “significant” damage in the accident.
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