PITTSFIELD – Local police were kept busy over the weekend with a couple of arrests and an accident involving serious injuries.

A 16-year-old Canaan girl suffered serious head and arm injuries Saturday when she lost control of her vehicle on snowy Route 2 in Pittsfield and struck a utility pole.

“The car hit right at the driver’s side door and fender,” said Officer Rodney Minoty of the local Police Department. “That’s the most vulnerable part of a car.”

Emily Bane, who was driving a 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass, was taken first to Sebasticook Valley Hospital to be stabilized and then transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where she was listed in serious condition Sunday evening.

“Speed was not a factor,” Minoty said, adding that Bane was wearing a seat belt. “We had to cut her out of the belt and cut the roof off the car to get her out.” The car was headed west, and the crash happened at the bottom of a steep hill just after Higgins Road on Route 2.

The accident is being reconstructed by Maine State Trooper Jon Wilson. Minoty was assisted by Officer Brent Summers and the Pittsfield Fire Department, who used its new Jaws of Life extrication tools.

Also in Pittsfield, a 42-year-old man was arrested late Friday on charges of domestic assault. Brian Jackson was accused of smashing belongings at his girlfriend’s residence and then assaulting her 16-year-old son. The boy also was cut by flying broken glass but did not require medical treatment, according to Minoty.

The officer said that though this was the second time Jackson had been arrested on domestic violence charges at the same residence, he was released Friday morning on $40 cash bail.

Minoty also arrested Jason Amara, 27, of Pittsfield early Saturday morning on charges of driving to endanger, criminal speed and attempting to elude an officer.

About 1:20 a.m., Minoty was approaching Main Street when he saw Amara’s 1999 Ford Expedition pass a pickup truck on the right-hand side while driving across a railroad crossing. The vehicle then accelerated to speeds exceeding 90 mph south on Main Street, and the driver pulled into The Picnic Basket restaurant parking lot and shut off the vehicle’s lights.

Minoty said there were three passengers in the vehicle at the time of the incident. Amara was bailed from the police station.