Investigators are still looking into what caused a pickup truck carrying three people to lose control Tuesday on Route 2 in Hermon and clip a utility pole before rolling over.

All three people had to be extricated from the heavily damaged 1986 Dodge pickup truck and were taken to the hospital, none with life-threatening injuries, according to Bill Laughlin, senior deputy with the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department.

Speed and alcohol may have been factors in the accident, Laughlin said.

Tina Bushey, 41, of Hermon and Matt Gallant, 43, of Carmel were being evaluated at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on Tuesday evening while the third person, Tim Coleman, had been treated at the Bangor hospital and released, according to a hospital nursing supervisor.

The pickup was heading east on Route 2 near Northern Maine Junction and had just passed the first of two train trestles when Bushey lost control of the pickup, said Laughlin. He said the truck skidded off the road but then returned to the roadway where Bushey overcorrected, sending the vehicle off the right side of the road again.

The pickup truck hit a utility pole, clipping it off, and then rolled over, Laughlin said. Ambulance and fire crews from Hermon and Bangor worked to extricate the three from the truck.

A 24-year-old Madawaska man was arrested this week after Bangor police linked him to unauthorized ATM withdrawals that wiped out his grandmother’s checking account.

Joseph Crandall had been living with his grandmother in December 2001 when $2,400 in withdrawals was made from her account, although he subsequently moved back to Madawaska to stay with his mother, according to police.

The thefts came to light after family members went grocery shopping for Crandall’s grandmother and the checking account came up empty, reported Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill. The money was reported missing Dec. 20, although the thefts date more than two weeks before then. Crandall used an ATM card belonging to his deceased grandfather; his grandmother kept the card in a dresser.

Most of the withdrawals were made from cash machines at the Broadway Shopping Center, including at the Bangor Savings Bank where four withdrawals totaling $728 including fees were made in about four minutes Dec. 6.

An image caught on the surveillance camera was shown to the grandmother, who identified it as her grandson. In addition, Morrill faxed a copy of the picture of Crandall to Peoples Heritage Bank, where an employee reported it appeared to be the same man making a withdrawal using the grandmother’s ATM card. Eight other transactions using the grandmother’s card had been recorded by Brinks Security, which operated the bank’s ATMs.

Arrested Monday in Madawaska on a felony charge of theft, Crandall also was wanted on a warrant from Freeport, Morrill said.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli