A Greene couple was unharmed after their water truck lurched into a telephone pole on Brackett Road on Tuesday, bringing down wires and stranding them in the truck.

The owner and driver, Andy Michaud, 76, of Greene, explained he’d just delivered some water for a pool on Wood Pond Road — located off the dead-end Brackett Road — and was driving slowly, as he always does he said, down the road when he felt the truck shift to the side.

“I was not going fast,” Michaud said, which a witness who lives on the road confirmed. He doesn’t think he was even going 35 miles per hour.

With a 3,500-gallon water tank on his truck, Michaud said he usually has it full or empty, so the water isn’t moving around, especially when he tries to stop. He indicated it wasn’t the water shifting that initiated the crash, but rather the truck just started moving to the right side of the road and he acknowledged he was puzzled Tuesday: “I don’t know what happened.”

Michaud said he would have stopped before hitting the pole after his truck experienced some sort of mechanic failure, but water in the half-full tank moved forward, forcing it into the pole on the passenger side. The pole snapped with the top section left laying across the top of the cab and wires dangling.

Michaud and his wife, Diane, stayed in the truck to avoid electrocution and estimated they were there around an hour before crews got them out. The passen- ger side door was stuck, so Diane Michaud had to crawl out the driver-side door. Brunswick police and firefighters were dispatched to the crash at 1:05 p.m.

“I’ve been hauling water for many years, you know. This is the first time something like that ever happened,” Andy Michaud said. He said the 1987 GMC truck was just recently inspected, which flagged no issues and it had a sticker. And it had all new tires.

Brunswick police officer Terry Goan said he will not issue any charges. Due to the extent of damage under the truck, he said the cause wasn’t determined following the crash Tuesday.

The couple remained on scene for more than three hours while Central Maine Power and FairPoint crews worked to raise the snapped portion of the pole and attached wires so the truck could be removed, the pole replaced and utility service restored.

Michaud fills his truck up with water in Sabattus and pays via a meter, and delivers the water for pools usually no farther from home than Brunswick. He made the tank on his truck himself out of a former milk tank. He’s been delivering pool water for at least 25 years.

Upon inspection after the accident, Michaud believes the truck’s frame wasn’t bent, but it will need a new cab. His wife said their insurance will cover the damage caused by the truck, including replacement of the utility pole.

They expected someone would be inspecting the truck later to try to determine what caused the crash.

The couple will have been married 40 years next month. They have eight children, 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

“We’ve got to stick together,” Diane Michaud said.

“For better or for worse, huh,” Andy Michaud added.