Driver injured in crash after striking deer

CORINTH – A car struck a deer on the Grant Road Wednesday afternoon and drove off the road, where it rolled over and down an embankment.

Only minor injuries were reported in the accident that occurred about 4:30 p.m. on the Grant Road, a few hundred yards from the Kenduskeag town line.

The driver of the car, 22-year-old Kristie Clark, complained of pain in her neck and was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, reported Sgt. John Skroski of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department. Clark’s 2-year-old daughter, Victoria, was secured in a car seat and apparently wasn’t injured.

Clark reported that the deer jumped out in front of her and struck the front of her car, prompting her to drive into the soft shoulder of the road. Skroski said she lost control of the car and it went over an embankment, rolling over once before coming to rest on its roof. Clark turned off the car and got herself and child out and then flagged someone down for help.