CARRABASSETT VALLEY — A two-car, head-on collision Sunday on Carrabassett Drive left one driver in critical condition and two others in fair condition at a Lewiston hospital.
Police responded to the accident on the road, also known as routes 27 and 16, at 7:03 a.m.
A Toyota SUV driven by Andrew Brockelman, 22, of Boxford, Massachusetts, was heading north while a Mazda vehicle driven by Richard Spiess 75, of Southwest Harbor, was going south, according to the Carrabassett Valley Police Department.
“The Toyota crossed the centerline and struck the Mazda head-on,” Assistant Police Chief Rick Billian said.
Carrabassett Valley and Kingfield fire departments and NorthStar EMS ambulance crews extricated the occupants from the vehicles.
Spiess and his wife, Lee Ann Spiess, 59, also of Southwest Harbor, were taken by two LifeFlight helicopters to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, according to police.
Richard Spiess was in critical condition and Lee Ann Spiess was in fair condition, a CMMC spokeswoman said Monday.
A NorthStar ambulance crew took Brockelman to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Billian said.
He was later transferred to CMMC.
Brockelman is in fair condition, a CMMC spokeswoman said.
Investigating officer Corey Ceccarelli is continuing to investigate the accident.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office assisted police at the scene.
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