Police said Thursday there has been no word on the condition of an Embden man who crashed his truck down a steep embankment Wednesday afternoon and later was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to a Bangor hospital.
Red Green, 67, of Bert Berry Road, suffered possibly life-threatening injuries in the crash, police said Wednesday.
James Ross, chief deputy at the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department, said the lack of news from the hospital on Green’s condition is actually good news because if the accident had turned into a fatality, the sheriff’s department would have been notified.
A spokeswoman at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where police said Green was taken, said Thursday no information was available on Green, meaning that he either was not at the hospital or had not signed a waiver for the release of information.
Green, who was driving a 2000 Chevrolet pickup truck, suffered broken bones after his truck went off Kennebec River Road, also known as Route 16, just before 3 p.m. and landed about 50 feet down on the ice of Alder Brook near a snowmobile trail crossing.
Ross said Green lives on Bert Berry Road in Embden and has no family in the area.
He said Green has a golden retriever, which was not with him when he crashed his truck. A neighbor, Sherri Adams, said the dog is safe and being cared for.
Emergency crews using specialized high-angle rescue equipment were able to rescue Green from his truck. Ross said a school bus driver saw the truck at the bottom of the embankment and went down and spoke to Green, who said he had swerved to avoid a deer. Ross said it appeared that the truck had been down there for some time because ice had reformed on the brook where the tires made impact.
Doug Harlow — 612-2367
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