TOPSHAM
A passenger of car involved in a three-vehicle crash along Route 196 Sunday was taken to a Brunswick hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
The crash was reported on Route 196 near Ivanhoe Drive at 8:23 p.m. According to Sgt. Fred Dunn with the Topsham Police Department, the crash was triggered by a dump truck in a construction zone that drove out of Ivanhoe Drive and failed to yield to traffic on Route 196. Matthew Farmer, 29, of Norridgewock, was forced to jump on the brakes of a 2006 GMC pickup to avoid hitting the dump truck. A Chevy sedan driven by 21-year-old Kristina Asselyn of Durham stopped behind Farmer. A 1993 Pontiac driven by Hillary Perry, 21, of Buckfield, was behind Asselyn and struck the Chevy, which then hit the pickup driven by Farmer.
A passenger in the Chevy sedan, 22-year-old Michael Mason, was transported to Mid Coast Hospital and was treated and released a couple hours later Sunday, according to a hospital spokesman.
The dump truck that started the chain reaction crash kept driving, Dunn said.
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