BOWDOIN
The Bowdoin Fire Department and the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department responded to a crash on Dead River Road on Friday shortly before 5 p.m.
The crash was reported not far from the intersection with Litchfield Road at 4:33 p.m.
Chief Deputy Brett Strout of the sheriff ’s department said Tyler Blanchard, 19, of Litchfield was driving a 1993 red Ford pickup truck on Dead River Road and told the responding deputy a cat ran out in the road and he swerved to avoid it. This caused him to overcorrect and the truck spun around 360 degrees as it went off the opposite side of the road and hit a group of trees. Strout said Blanchard was not issued any charges. He was not injured and the truck was towed away.
The truck had just been filled and had about an estimated 40 gallons aboard, according to Bowdoin Fire Chief Tom Garrepy, but likely only two or three gallons at most was spilled. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection was notified.
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