CORINNA – Three teens were thrown from the bed of a pickup truck Tuesday afternoon when it careened off a railroad bed in Corinna.

Deputy Joshua Tibbetts of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said four Dexter men and a juvenile were driving on the gravel railroad bed between Moody Mills Road and Lincoln Mills Road when the truck began to fishtail, struck a rock in the gravel roadbed, left the road and struck several small trees.

Tibbetts said Andrew Sargent, 19; Chris Tozier, 18; and a juvenile were in the truck bed before they were ejected. Matthew Ward, 18, was driving, Tibbetts said, and Andrew Rolf, 19, was in the passenger’s seat. Neither Ward nor Rolf was wearing his seat belt.

Tibbetts said Ward was taken to Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, but none of the others was injured.

Tibbetts said the men told him they were bird hunting. Ward, whose license had been suspended, was not charged because the railroad bed was not a public way, Tibbetts said. Tibbetts said the truck was traveling at about 45 mph at the time of the accident.

Ward was treated at the hospital and released. The truck, Tibbetts said, was totaled. The accident remains under investigation.