WOOLWICH — Snow that began falling early Friday morning and continued through most of the day kept the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department busy responding to vehicle crashes. None involved lifethreatening injuries.
A single-vehicle rollover on George Wright Road in Woolwich was reported at 10: 51 a.m. Friday. Lt. Calvin Temple said Thomas Stenquist, 21, of 22 Oliver St., Bath, was driving a 1997 Ford Ranger pickup north on George Wright Road when he slid off the road in snowy conditions.
The truck flipped onto its side. Stenquist did not require hospitalization, and the truck sustained about $1,000 damage to the driver’s side.
At 11: 48 a. m. Friday on Main Road in Phippsburg, another single-vehicle crash was reported. Melissa Willey, 26, of 45 Pit Road, Phippsburg, who was driving in a 2004 Suzuki four-door vehicle on Route 209, lost control and went off the road. Phippsburg Rescue responded.
Willey was taken to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick as a precautionary measure because she is pregnant. A hospital representative said Willey was treated and released Friday.
The sheriff ’s department was called to a two-vehicle crash in West Bath at 1:24 p.m. Friday. The incident occurred in the area of the New Meadows exit on Route 1.
Temple said Tiffany Molina Perra, 22, of 27 Sunnyside Ave., Hanover, Mass., was entering Route 1 southbound from the New Meadows onramp driving a 1996 Ford Explorer. Molina-Perra allegedly failed to yield the right of way to a 2005 Honda C-RV driven by William Konzal, 70, of 127 Echo Road, Brunswick.
The two vehicles collided. No one was injured, including two children in the vehicle Molina- Parra was operating, which sustained about $7,000 in damage, according to Temple
Konzal’s vehicle sustained about $8,000 in damage.
In the course of the next three hours, four crashes were reported in Bowdoin.
At 2:02 p.m. Friday, a driver headed east on Main Street drove onto the soft shoulder of the road and spun around.
At 2:36 p.m., a second vehicle hit slush on Main Street and went into a ditch.
At 3:10 p.m., a vehicle on Litchfield Road in Bowdoin veered off the road and into a ditch, resulting in a flat tire. All three crashes resulted in no injuries and less than $1,000 in damage.
A second vehicle crashed on Litchfield Road in Bowdoin at 4:26 p.m. Friday. The driver of a van lost control of the vehicle, causing the passenger side of the van to slam into a utility pole. The crash totaled the van, but the driver, Christopher Tremblay, 38, of 960 Gardiner Road, Wales, and his 8-year-old daughter, a passenger in the vehicle, were not injured. The utility pole was not damaged, Temple said.
Temple said a crash was reported at 4:22 p.m. Friday on Old Stage Road in Woolwich. Evelyn Coffin, 72, of 76 Gray Corner Road, Woolwich, was driving a 2009 Hyundai Elantra east on Old Stage Road. She lost control on a sharp corner, apparently due to snow and slush, Temple said, and her vehicle went off the road and struck a tree.
Coffin was treated for slight chest pain, but the sheriff ’s department spokesman said she did not suffer serious injury.
At 5:20 p.m. Friday, a vehicle slid down a steep section of road and, as it came to a curve, went into a ditch at the Murphy’s Corner Road and Barley Neck Road intersection in Woolwich. There were no injuries, and damage to the vehicle was estimated at $1,000.
Early Sunday morning, the sheriff ’s department received a report of a crash on Popham Road in Phippsburg. The 17- year-old driver of a 2005 Volvo station wagon was traveling south on Popham Road, lost control on a curve due to ice on the roadway, crossed the center line and traveled back into the southbound lane before the car left the road and hit a tree head-on. The vehicle’s momentum caused the car to spin around and strike a second tree from the rear.
The driver and a 17-year-old passenger, both females who attend Hyde School in Bath, according to Temple, were taken to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick for complaints of neck and shoulder pain. A hospital representative said both teens were treated and released Sunday.
dmoore@timesrecord.com
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