BOWDOINHAM

A snowmobiler was taken to Central Maine Medical Center Saturday morning after he collided with an oncoming car on Post Road in Bowdoinham late Saturday morning. 

The incident was reported at 11:38 a.m. near the Recycling Barn. Frederick Snowdeal, 55, of Bowdoinham was taken by Topsham Rescue to CMMC with serious injuries that were not life threatening. 

Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark McDonald said Snowdeal was reportedly traveling down the middle of the road on an Arctic Cat snowmobile when a Chevy Impala driven by Hannah Mecham, 19, of Bowdoinham, came around a corner traveling in the opposite direction. 

McDonald said Mecham swerved to the right to avoid Snowdeal, who swerved to the left and the two met somewhere in the middle. Snowdeal was wearing a helmet and hit his head on the windshield of the car. According to rescue personnel, he was conscious when McDonald arrived on scene.

The airbags deployed in the car and the windshield broke but Mecham was not injured.

McDonald said Snowdeal almost made it to the trail in a field he was riding to when the crash occurred.

According to the Maine Department if Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which offers a guide on snowmobile rules, a registered snowmobile may only operate a distance of up to 300 yards on a public way to the extreme right in order to cross the public way as directly as possible. A person operating a snowmobile on a public or private way maintained for travel, must yield the right of way to all vehicular traffic.