ST. AGATHA — A Caribou-based company’s tractor-trailer was involved in an accident on Friday morning; while one vehicle sustained major damage, nobody was injured in the crash.
According to Chief Deputy Sheriff Darrell Crandall of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office, a 17-year-old St. Agatha resident struck a tractor-trailer owned by Northstate Transportation of Caribou around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 3.
The 17-year old driver was leaving the St. Agatha School in a 2012 Ford Focus and slid into the path of the southbound tractor-trailer, driven by Mark Lavoie, 51, of Westfield.
The car collided with the rear axle of the trailer, which was attached to a 2007 Freightliner tractor. The car spun out from under the trailer and came to rest on a snowbank.
Crandall said that the trailer received only minor damage, but the car sustained substantial front-end damage and the airbags were deployed.
“Ambulance Service Inc. of Fort Kent responded and determined the 17-year-old did not require medical attention,” Crandall said in a press release, and Lavoie was not injured.
The teen was issued a summons for operating after suspension. The Maine Warden Service assisted with traffic control and Paradis’ Towing removed the car.
