AVON — A 14-year-old girl was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when the utility task vehicle she was driving rolled over in a driveway at 136 Cross Road.
The teen was visiting family friends when she and two other girls got into the Bobcat UTV, Mark Latti, director of communications for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, wrote in an email Wednesday. The 14-year-old, who was experienced with the vehicle, was driving down the driveway when she lost control of it and it rolled onto the driver’s side, trapping both of her feet, he said.
“A passenger was able to unbuckle, get out and able to move the UTV off her, then remove her feet from under the UTV,” Latti wrote. The girl received serious injuries to her feet and was transported by NorthStar EMS ambulance to MaineHealth Franklin Hospital in Farmington.
All three girls were buckled into the UTV; none wore helmets, Latti wrote.
Emergency medical services and Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputies were on scene and a NorthStar ambulance transported the teenager to the hospital before game wardens arrived.
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