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LEBANON, ME - The Lebanon Rescue Department, Maine State Police and Lebanon Fire Department responded to a motor vehicle accident on Wednesday evening, December 30, 2009. The accident was located on the Emery Mills Road and was near the intersection of Upper Middle Road. The accident was reported at 8:35 p.m.

Assistant Rescue Chief Jason Cole was first on scene and located a 1998 Ford Explorer that had hit a telephone pole head on and the pole was broken at the base. The airbags had deployed and there were signs of injury at the scene, but no one was around the vehicle. Assistant Chief Cole established EMS command at the new command vehicle.

“There were foot prints leading from the vehicle down the roadway, so we had assumed that he may have gone to a neighboring house and had EMTs starting to check with neighbors, but then the operator showed back up in a vehicle after walking to a friends house up the street. The front of the explorer suffered extensive damage and broke the pole off at the base.” Assistant Chief Jason Cole added. “The driver was treated on scene by Lebanon Rescue personnel but did not require transport to the hospital via the ambulance. Fortunately he was wearing his seatbelt and the airbags deployed. He advised he was traveling east on Bakers Grant Road when he lost control on the sharp corner on Bakers Grant Road. The wind had been blowing snow into the roadway all day and the road was very slippery.”

The operator of the vehicle was a 42-year-old man from Acton, Maine. He was alone in the vehicle. The vehicle was totalled in the accident and had to be towed from the scene.

Central Maine Power responded to the scene to secure the pole until it can be replaced.

Bakers Grant Road was closed to one lane for about 80 minutes while emergency crews worked on the scene and the vehicle was removed.

Maine State Police are investigating the accident.