NEW GLOUCESTER – Speed and alcohol appear to be factors in a crash Thursday night in New Gloucester that sent a local man to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, police said Friday.

According to police, Arnold Dean Eldridge, 59, of Snow Hill Road, was driving a 1997 Volkswagen Jetta south on the Sabbathaday Road in New Gloucester at around 9:30 p.m. Eldridge crossed the northbound lane of travel, leaving the roadway and driving over a snowbank going air born.

Eldridge’s vehicle then struck a parked vehicle in a driveway, causing the first parked vehicle to strike another parked vehicle beside it. Elridge was not wearing a seatbelt, causing his face to strike and break the windshield.

Eldridge sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries and was transported to Central Maine Medical Center by New Gloucester Rescue. Nobody else was hurt in the crash.

The cause of the accident appears to be speed and alcohol related. Test results are pending which could lead to the appropriate criminal charges.