3-vehicle accident in Baring delays traffic

BARING – Maine State Police are investigating a three-vehicle accident Monday afternoon on Route 1 that tied up traffic for more than an hour.

Troopers were called to the scene around 3 p.m. in the vicinity of Downeast Glass.

Two people were taken by Downeast EMS ambulance to Calais Regional Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

Although details of the accident remained unclear, Trooper Kimberly Janes said that Ellery Townsend, 61, of Eastport was traveling toward Baileyville in his 1998 GMC truck while Elyse Seavey, 48, address unknown, was traveling toward Calais in a 2004 Toyota Corolla when the collision occurred.

Townsend’s truck went off the road and into a ditch striking a car that had been parked on the side of the road. Seavey’s car came to rest in the road. She had to be extricated from the car. The parked car that had a for sale sign on it belonged to the son of Edith Marsh, who lives out of state.

Seavey was wearing a seat belt. Townsend was not due to medical reasons.