BREWER – A Connecticut woman was injured in an accident Thursday afternoon involving a tractor-trailer carrying bark chips and a bus carrying members of the stage crew for 3 Doors Down, a nationally known rock band.

Mary T. Kelley, 59, of Meriden, Conn., was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, where she was still being evaluated in the hospital’s emergency department early Thursday night. Kelley reportedly was visiting relatives in Brewer at the time of the crash, according to Sgt. John Skroski of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department.

According to Skroski, the accident occurred about 3 p.m., just before the midpoint of the Veterans Remembrance Bridge, near a point where I-395 changes from two lanes to three. All three vehicles were traveling west toward Bangor.

Though the accident remains under investigation, Kelley is believed to have struck the right front section of the band’s 1994 Coach tour bus driven by Earl Brookins of Green Cove Springs, Fla., while trying to pass a 1999 Freightliner tractor-trailer operated by Jerry Stafford of Coal Creek, New Brunswick, Skroski said. It appeared that Kelley did not see the bus until it was too late, Skroski said.

After hitting the bus, Kelley’s vehicle careened into the center guardrail and then back across the bridge into the path of the tractor-trailer. The vehicle then spun into a guardrail along the side of the bridge and hit the guardrail head on.

Though damage to the bus and tractor-trailer were minimal, at about $1,500 to $2,000 each, the red Chevrolet sport utility vehicle Kelley was driving, which belonged to one of her Brewer relatives, was demolished. Skroski estimated damage at about $10,000.

The bus was carrying four members of the band’s crew who had been on a day trip to Bar Harbor earlier in the day. None of them was injured.

Skroski was assisted by Brewer police, fire and ambulance personnel, Chief Deputy Glenn Ross and Deputy Troy Morton.