MEXICO — A driver for Western Foothills School District suffered a head injury Wednesday morning when the empty bus he was operating slammed into a storage building at the Mexico One Stop store at 1 Harlow Hill Road, police officer Ashley Rich said.
The driver, Montana Barrett, 40, of Mexico, was flown to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston where he was being treated, police Lt. Derek MacDonald said Wednesday evening.
Barrett was traveling on Roxbury Road before 9 a.m. when he suffered some kind of episode, Rich said. “He had a head injury, but was alert when he was extricated and put into the ambulance,” she said.
There were no students on the bus at the time.
The crash was reconstructed by Maine State Police.
The Mexico Police Department is continuing its investigation, MacDonald said.
Mexico Police and Fire departments responded, along with Rumford Fire Department and Med-Care ambulance service.
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