Rockport morning crash attributed to speeding, phone check
Rockport Fire Department, Rockport police, Camden First Aid and Camden Exxon responded to a single-vehicle crash on Main Street in Rockport Monday morning. The truck was totaled with heavy damage to its front end and engine, according to police. (Photo by Lynda Clancy)
Tracks made by the truck through the field. (Photo by Lynda Clancy)
Camden Exxon attaches cables to the truck to haul it out of the ditch.
Rockport Fire Department, Rockport police, Camden First Aid and Camden Exxon responded to a single-vehicle crash on Main Street in Rockport Monday morning. The truck was totaled with heavy damage to its front end and engine, according to police. (Photo by Lynda Clancy)
Tracks made by the truck through the field. (Photo by Lynda Clancy)
Camden Exxon attaches cables to the truck to haul it out of the ditch.
ROCKPORT — Camden First Aid Association transported the driver of a pickup truck to Pen Bay Medical Center at approximately 8 a.m. Monday after she left the road, traveled into a grassy field for 100 feet, through the air, and came to a halt against a tree.
Rockport Police Officer Dana Smith said Tammy Banville, of Camden, was heading east on Main Street when, as she was apparently checked her mobile phone contacts, veered to the opposite side of the road. The truck, a 2008 Sierra, continued to travel alongside the left side of the road when it hit a collapsed culvert, went airborne for 30 feet, and then hit a small tree.
Banville, 33, was wearing a seatbelt and the driver's airbag deployed. She was transported to the hospital, suffering neck and back pain.
Smith attributed the crash to speed and mobile phone use. He issued Banville a summons for failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle.
He said the truck was a total loss due to major front-end damage and a bent frame. Smith advises drivers to pull over to the side of the road before trying access information on a mobile phone.
Editorial Director Lynda Clancy can be reached at lyndaclancy@penbaypilot.com; 706-6657.
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