PITTSFIELD – A car unable to stop at an intersection slid right through, setting off a chain reaction Tuesday morning that ended with three vehicles damaged and one person taken to Sebasticook Valley Hospital with back injuries.

Arthur Harsh, 38, was driving a 1996 Ford sedan south on Hartland Avenue when he slid through the intersection at Somerset Avenue.

He struck a 1991 Buick operated by David Pomerleau, 48, spinning that car around backward. Harsh’s vehicle also spun around, striking a 1964 Plymouth sedan operated by Edward P. Littlefield, 60, according to Officer Rodney Minoty of the Pittsfield Police Department.

A passenger in Pomerleau’s car, Ronald Pressey, was taken to SVH for treatment of back injuries, abrasions and bruises.

No hometowns for those involved were available, according to Minoty, and no one was charged.