Sleepy driver rolls over truck on Interstate 95

HAMPDEN – Rescuers on Thursday morning used the Jaws of Life to extricate an Augusta man from a pickup truck that had rolled over several times on Interstate 95.

The driver, Andrew Miley, 34, was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where a hospital spokesperson said later Thursday that he still was being evaluated.

A state trooper investigating the accident on the southbound lane of I-95, just below the Coldbrook Road exit, said that Miley fell asleep at the wheel while heading home to Augusta.

Trooper Darren Vittum said the 1999 Ford Ranger pickup Miley was driving struck the guardrails and rolled over two or three times.

Miley was wearing his seat belt at the time and Vittum said that saved him from more serious or fatal injuries.

Miley was trapped in the pickup truck, however, and Hampden Deputy Fire Chief Mike Andersen said the town’s Fire and Rescue Department spent about half an hour using the hydraulic equipment to remove Miley from the truck.

Vittum said the interstate was blocked off for about 20 minutes to allow state sweeping equipment to clean up the rocks and other landscape debris that had been thrown from the back of the pickup truck.