NORRIDGEWOCK — A person was injured after the vehicle they were driving veered off the road Thursday night and struck a tree, a responding official said.

The crash occurred around 4 p.m. on U.S. Route 2, also known as the Skowhegan Road, when an SUV veered off the road’s shoulder, according to Norridgewock Fire Department Lt. Kyle Mullin.

“It was pretty serious. The crash itself was significant,” Mullin said, adding that the vehicle “went off the road, hit a pine tree, and the trunk of the tree kicked out and landed on top of the SUV.”

The unidentified male driver was the only person in the vehicle. He was taken by ambulance to Skowhegan’s Redington-Fairview General Hospital, according to Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Mike Mitchell.

“The condition of the patient, I cannot say, but I don’t believe there were life-threatening injuries,” Mullin said. “The patient was able to extract himself and get out, but the damage to the SUV was pretty significant.”

First responders from the Norridgewock Fire Department and Somerset County Sheriff’s Office remained on scene for several hours to clean up the heavy damage and extinguish small fires that had spread around the crash site, according to Mitchell.

“Vegetation, some wildlife, brush had been lit on fire,” Mitchell said. “The firefighters were there for a couple hours.”

The cause of the crash was not immediately apparent to responding officials.