Drivers of a box truck and small car received minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident on Rt. 27 in Dresden Monday morning. The collision occurred on the upward slope in Dresden near the Wiscasset town line at about 8:35 a.m. when Dresden resident Cheryl Keelan was backing her Toyota Scion out of a driveway, Maine State Police trooper Adam McNaughton said.
Philip McKenzie of Augusta, driving a Pine State Trading coffee truck in the east bound lane toward Wiscasset, crashed into Keelan’s Toyota. Bits of broken glass sprayed his face as his driver’s side window shattered. McKenzie received minor cuts to his face as he continued down the road, stopping on the eastbound slope a couple hundred feet beyond the Wiscasset town line.
“He was trying to get out of the road,” McNaughton said, adding the truck had begun to leak fluid, what McNaughton suspected was anti-freeze from a busted radiator.
Keelan sustained minor head injuries, McNaughton said. By his description, the Toyota’s back end was “pretty smashed up”, though he could not confirm the vehicle was totaled in the crash. McNaughton was not sure as to the extent of damage on the truck, either.
Wiscasset Police, North East Ambulance service and Dresden Fire Dept. also arrived on scene to assist with traffic control and the injuries. According to McNaughton, neither of the two drivers were transported to a hospital. Emergency personnel cleared the scene at 9:33 a.m.
