SUMNER — At least two people were injured in all-terrain-vehicle accidents Saturday afternoon in Sumner and Freeman Township.
Trooper Gregory Tirado said Saturday evening that a 74-year-old Sumner resident rolled his ATV atop himself at about 5:45 p.m. in his dooryard on Byron Street.
Tirado declined to identify the man pending the extent of his injuries, because the trooper said he hadn’t yet been able to verify that the injuries were not life-threatening.
According to emergency medical responders on scene, he said the injuries didn’t appear to be life-threatening. However, the man was taken by a LifeFlight medical helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston as a precaution.
“The ATV was heavy and because of his age, and it appeared that he may have had a broken femur, maybe a couple of broken collarbones, and maybe crushing injuries that affected his breathing, but he was responsive,” Tirado said of the reasoning behind the airlift.
He said the man’s dooryard is on an incline.
“It appears he went down the incline at an angle and maybe turned too sharply and rolled it over,” Tirado said. “He wasn’t doing any Evel Knievel stunt.”
No information was available about the ATV incident in Freeman Township in Franklin County. It happened at about 3:35 p.m and was investigated by Maine Warden Troy Thibodeau, a dispatcher in Augusta said.
Thibodeau was one of six new wardens sworn in on Aug. 21 at the Maine Warden Service’s Advanced Academy in Vassalboro.
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