A Massachusetts man who experienced a medical problem at about 1:30 p.m. Monday while driving on Annis Road in Hermon was taken to the hospital after his car left the road, went down an embankment and rolled onto its side.

Jeremy Curtis, 34, of Woburn, Mass., was driving north in his green Ford Taurus when he passed out, veered off the road and landed 20 yards down the embankment across the street from 178 Annis Road, said Sgt. Michael Burgess of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office. Curtis was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, and emergency crews had to use extrication equipment from the Levant Fire Department to free him from the vehicle, Burgess said.

Curtis was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor complaining of lower back pain, Burgess said. Hermon and Levant fire departments and the Hermon Volunteer Rescue Squad went to the accident scene. (Toni-Lynn Robbins, BDN)