UPDATE: Four transported to hospital following motor vehicle crash near Owls Head Lighthouse

Sarah Thompson
Sun, 08/07/2022 - 9:30am
This photo faces the front of the car and the road that the car had left before leaving the road, hitting a stone, and then coming to rest against two trees. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)

    OWLS HEAD — Firefighters extricated the front passenger involved in a Sunday morning Lighthouse Road car crash, and all four occupants were transported to Pen Bay Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

    Knox Regional Communications Center received a report of the crash at 7:34 a.m., and when first responders arrived, they found that a 2016 black Honda Civic, operated by Jayla Campbell, 22, of Turner Falls, Massachusetts, had left the roadway, struck a utility wire and crashed into a tree.

    “The incident is still under investigation but environmental factors are being considered as a contributing factor in the crash,” said the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

    Central Maine Power and Automaster wrecker company also assisted at the scene.

    OWLS HEAD — There have been fires along Lighthouse Road, according to one neighbor. People have been apprehended in the park while trying to hide from law enforcement. But, until now, nothing has been quite like this. 

    Four people were transported to Pen Bay Medical Center, Sunday morning, Aug. 7, 2022, after the car they were riding in went off the road and into some trees.

    For about an hour, starting after the approximate 7:45 a.m. call to 911 by another neighbor, visitors to the Owls Head Lighthouse were stuck in the parking lot, and other visitors on the other side were turned away, as Owls Head Fire Department, Rockland EMS, South Thomaston Ambulance, and Knox County Sheriff’s Office tended to the scene.

    Because all three Rockland ambulances were being used for this call, Rockland EMS asked Northeast Mobile Health Service to station one of their rigs at the Rockland FD in case any further calls came in.

    Owls Head contracts with Rockland EMS for medical calls. South Thomaston and NorthEast Ambulance were called as mutual aid. 

    Just as the initial call came in, runners participating in the annual Lobster Festival road races in Rockland were gathering on Main Street, in anticipation of running along downtown Main Street, Broadway, and the Industrial Park. 

    Reach Sarah Thompson at news@penbaypilot.com

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