MORO PLANTATION – A Grand Isle truck driver has been charged with driving violations after he allegedly forced another truck off the road Friday morning.

Donald Duplessis, 38, has been charged with driving to endanger and leaving the scene of a property damage accident, according to Trooper Chad Fuller of the Maine State Police.

At about 7:30 a.m., Rodney Cronkhite, 45, of Passadumkeag was headed south on Route 11, driving a wood chip truck. He had slowed down because another driver had alerted him to a moose in the road.

He was about a half mile south of Knowles Corner going downhill into a curve when he encountered the truck operated by Duplessis headed north, but in the southbound lane.

Fuller said the northbound truck was passing a pickup truck going uphill as it was coming around the curve.

Cronkhite slowed down more and pulled as far off the right side of the road as he could when his truck loaded with wood chips rolled over.

Duplessis, who was driving for Morin Farms of St. John Plantation, narrowly missed Cronkhite’s truck and kept on going.

“It could have been very serious, almost a head-on collision,” Fuller said.

Cronkhite, who was not wearing a seatbelt, complained of minor pain in his neck and back, but was not seriously hurt.

His truck, a 1996 Peterbilt, and trailer, owned by Smith Mountain View Express, had an estimated $25,000 damage, Fuller said.

Route 11 was closed briefly Friday while a wrecker was used to right the overturned truck.