ST. GEORGE — Members of the State Police reconstruction team are helping Knox County Sheriff’s deputies to investigate why one vehicle crossed the center line on River Road, near Barter Point Road, resulting in a head-on collision this morning.

St. George Fire and EMS, South Thomaston EMS, and county deputies were alerted to the two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning, Nov. 2, at 8:32 a.m. Three people, including a child, were transported to Pen Bay Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

According to Sheriff Pat Polky, preliminary information indicates that a blue Ford Maverick, operated by Lawrence Schooley, 71, of St. George, was traveling southbound on the River Road and crossed over the centerline striking a brown Volvo, operated by a 17 year old juvenile, of St. George.

Both operators, and a 4-year-old juvenile passenger of the Ford Maverick, were taken to a local hospital for injuries. Both vehicles were towed due to disabling damage.

As in the case of all first responses to incidences that are reported as serious, three deputies responded to the scene. Then, in this case, two more went as support persons to their agency. They were eventually accompanied by three State Police reconstructionists, who took drone measurements. Those measurements will be taken to Augusta and analyzed in the coming days. 

Traffic was been rerouted down the Wallston Road for a few hours.

Automaster towed the vehicles.

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