ROCKLAND — Despite traffic on the street, a crash in Rockland, Friday evening, May 2, remained just a single vehicle incident, though a house and utility pole were damaged.

According to Rockland Police and witnesses, at approximately 7:10 p.m., vehicles were stopped on south Main Street, near Thomaston Street, waiting for another vehicle to make a left-hand turn. That's when a northbound pickup truck drove up behind the line of traffic. Instead of stopping, it allegedly pulled to the right, around the other vehicles, skimmed a utility pole at Main and Crescent streets, before skidding past half of the Maritime Farms parking lot and swerving into a house across from the gas pumps. The skimming of the utility pole left wood chips and other debris in the roadway, which a neighbor cleaned up. Somewhere along the way, the truck narrowly missed a motocycle and its driver by mere inches, according to witnesses, and the impact by the truck into the house was loud enough to shake nearby residences and startle occupants who are long accustomed to the thudding of vehicles driving over the railroad tracks.

No one was injured, and the occupant of the truck was eventually taken to jail based on a determination that the driver had "some sort of substance" in the system, according to Rockland Police Chief Tim Carroll.

Rockland Fire and EMS also responded to the scene. Firefighters assessed the structure of the house for obvious signs of safety hazards. Their method of patching was dependant on further assessment after the truck had been hauled from the scene by Camden Exxon.

Most, if not all, emergency units had left the scene by 8:15 p.m.