Tractor-trailer, pickup truck collide on Route 1 in Robbinston

ROBBINSTON – The Maine State Police are continuing to investigate an accident on Route 1 Thursday evening involving a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck that left a 36-year-old Robbinston woman with minor injuries.

Around 6 p.m. Thursday, Maynard Vining, 51, of Charlotte was operating a 1988 Kenworth tractor-trailer south on Route 1, toward Eastport, when the accident occurred. The truck was carrying 50,000 pounds of kraft, a paper product, from the Georgia-Pacific mill, said Trooper Micah Perkins of the Maine State Police.

Although police are still investigating the cause of the accident, Vining told police that a 2000 Ford pickup truck driven by Laurie Carr pulled out from a side road in front of him. He said he attempted to pull around the pickup, but at the same moment the driver apparently decided to turn left into a turn around. Vining’s tractor-trailer clipped the pickup, continued across to the opposite side of the road, smashed through the guardrail and came to rest on its roof on the embankment. Carr was taken to Calais Regional Hospital where she was treated and released. The tractor-trailer was removed around 10:30 p.m.

Perkins estimated damage to the pickup at around $12,000, and damage to the tractor-trailer at around $35,000. The Washington County Sheriff’s Department and the Robbinston Fire Department assisted the state police at the scene.