ELIOT, Maine — A Farmington man who crashed a pickup truck believed to be stolen on Friday in Eliot is recovering from injuries and will face charges, police said.
Jeffrey Mitchell, 24, whose New Hampshire driver’s license had been suspended, drove a Ford F-250 into a utility pole on Goodwin Road, Eliot police Chief Elliott Moya said Saturday.
The chief said Mitchell is recovering at Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
Lynn Robbins, spokeswoman for Portsmouth Regional Hospital, said the patient was listed in serious condition.
Moya said said the investigation is ongoing.
“No charges yet, but they are coming,” Moya said. “We want to see what comes of the reconstruction and give him some time to recover.”
Emergency responders were dispatched to the area just south of 445 Goodwin Road at 4:14 p.m. Central Maine Power was on the scene to replace the severed pole, the top of which was suspended in the air.
Moya said the truck was reported stolen from Rochester, New Hampshire. He said speed and possibly alcohol were factors in the crash, citing a liquor bottle found outside the truck, which was off the road in a ditch.
The driver was the only occupant of the truck and no other vehicles were involved in the crash, he said. A crash reconstruction team from the York Police Department was at the scene.
Nancy Pitman, who lives near the crash scene, described hearing the tires screech from her home and then looked out the window and saw the truck flipped.
Pitman said there are often speeders in the area, sometimes trying to pass other vehicles where there is a double-yellow line on the road.
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