FREEMAN TOWNSHIP – A 25-year-old driver was injured on Friday after police said her car went off the road and ran into a utility pole’s guy wires and a stand of trees.
Katelyn O’Toole of Salem, was driving north on Baker Hill Road when she apparently had a “medical issue” and went off the road near the intersection of Route 142, said State Police Trooper Jillian Monahan.
O’Toole was trapped in the 2010 Nissan Altima as it was caught between the pole’s wires and the trees it landed against.
Emergency crews were called to the scene at a little after noon on Friday.
Central Maine Power was called to assist with the utility pole entanglement. Salem and Phillips fire fighters worked to free O’Toole by cutting trees down around her sedan.
Complicating matters were O’Toole’s two dogs, who were not letting emergency crews near the car to do their work to free her. A friend of O’Toole’s arrived on scene and escorted the worried dogs away.
Once pulled from her car, O’Toole was transported by NorthStar ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington. Trooper Monahan said O’Toole was later released from the hospital after receiving treatment.
Assisting at the scene were the Salem and Phillips fire departments, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and NorthStar ambulance.
