HODGDON, Maine — Icy roads and driver inattention were blamed for two vehicles colliding and then smashing into a pair of parked ATVs here Monday, according to police.
The accident took place just after 11:30 a.m. when Norman Estabrook, 21, of Houlton was driving his 2006 Dodge Caravan north toward Houlton on U.S. Route 1, Aroostook County Sheriff Darrell Crandall said in a written statement Monday evening.
Ronald Dupont, 47, of Linneus, who was traveling in the opposite direction in his 1998 Saturn, crossed Estabrook’s path as he turned into Tidd’s Sport Shop, the sheriff reported. Estabrook’s van struck the passenger’s side of Dupont’s vehicle, pushing both vehicles into the driveway of Tidd’s Sport Shop, where the vehicles hit a 2014 Can Am ATV and a 2011 Can Am ATV, Crandall said.
Both men were wearing their seat belts and no one was injured, the sheriff said.
He said both of the automobiles were believed totaled and both ATVs received significant damage.
The roads were snow- and ice-covered at the time, according to Crandall, who said that driver inattention and traveling too fast for road conditions were primary causes of the accident.