JAY — A 5-year-old Wilton girl was injured Monday when she shifted a Jeep into neutral and it rolled backward across Route 140, down an embankment and into the mud along the edge of the Androscoggin River.
The child jumped out of the rolling vehicle onto Route 140 and received minor injuries, Jay police officer Nicholas Gulliver said Tuesday.
The girl’s father, Douglas Given, 31, was getting ready to leave a family member’s residence when the child got into the Jeep in the driveway ahead of him, he said. She started playing in the Jeep and put it into neutral, he said. The Jeep was not running.
She was taken by a NorthStar Emergency Medical Services ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington where she was treated and released. The girl and family were at the Jay Police Station on Tuesday, Gulliver said.
There was no damage to the 1997 Jeep Wrangler that landed at the bottom of the banking, he said.
Detective Richard Caton IV assisted Gulliver at the scene of the 9:50 a.m. accident.
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