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01-17-2005, 03:32 PM
Monday, January 17, 2005
Jeep crashes into living room
By BETTY JESPERSEN
Staff Writer
Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
PHILLIPS -- A freak accident Saturday sent a Jeep skidding several hundred feet down an icy road and into the living room of a mobile home, where it struck a man sitting in a chair watching his big-screen TV.
The accident on Reeds Mill Road sent Martin White, 39, to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after emergency personnel at first thought he suffered a neck injury. After an evaluation, he was treated for abrasions, sprains and bruises and later released.
"It was quite a situation. It's not every day you see this kind of thing," said Phillips Fire Chief Glendon Bachelder on Sunday, whose department was called to the scene of the 1 p.m. mishap.
When he arrived, White was being loaded into the AMPS Ambulance, and the 1995 Jeep, which had run over the couch and just missed the TV, was parked in the center of the living room with its nose protruding out the back wall.
The Jeep reportedly struck White and pushed him out the other side, authorities said. It was believed he may have been playing a video game and had been holding the controls when he was hit, since they were found on the ground nearby.
"He doesn't remember anything about what happened. He got banged up pretty bad and it totaled the living room," said Jessica Phillips, who helped White's family make temporary repairs Saturday, covering up the two gaping holes in the metal walls of the trailer.
White and his girlfriend's small dog had been lying on the couch when the Jeep hit, and there was concern at first that it was trapped under the car, Bachelder said.
"But we found her hiding under the next- door trailer. She was pretty scared and scattered so we brought her into the truck to warm her up," he said.
White and his girlfriend, Belle Wilcox, will be staying with relatives.
According to Franklin County Sgt. Steve Lowell, Kasean Dunphy Robbins, 18, who had just moved back to North Anson after living in North Carolina, was driving the Jeep registered to her boyfriend's father, Wayne Bredeau of Bray Hill Road in Phillips.
A reconstruction of the accident by state police Trooper Darren Foster showed that the car was traveling at 32 mph when it went into the skid, Lowell said. The SUV appears to have swerved across the road three times before slamming into the hard-packed snowbank in front of White's trailer, which is set back about 100 feet from the road.
The impact sent the Jeep sailing through the air and right through the living room wall next to a set of windows.
Robbins had been visiting a friend at the Bredeau residence Sunday and was going to town for pizza, Wayne Bredeau said.
He said Robbins was shaken up but not injured, and his car only had minor damage to the bumper and side mirror.
Betty Jespersen -- 778-6991
bjespersen@centralmaine.com
LINK (http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/1299326.shtml)
Jeep crashes into living room
By BETTY JESPERSEN
Staff Writer
Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
PHILLIPS -- A freak accident Saturday sent a Jeep skidding several hundred feet down an icy road and into the living room of a mobile home, where it struck a man sitting in a chair watching his big-screen TV.
The accident on Reeds Mill Road sent Martin White, 39, to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after emergency personnel at first thought he suffered a neck injury. After an evaluation, he was treated for abrasions, sprains and bruises and later released.
"It was quite a situation. It's not every day you see this kind of thing," said Phillips Fire Chief Glendon Bachelder on Sunday, whose department was called to the scene of the 1 p.m. mishap.
When he arrived, White was being loaded into the AMPS Ambulance, and the 1995 Jeep, which had run over the couch and just missed the TV, was parked in the center of the living room with its nose protruding out the back wall.
The Jeep reportedly struck White and pushed him out the other side, authorities said. It was believed he may have been playing a video game and had been holding the controls when he was hit, since they were found on the ground nearby.
"He doesn't remember anything about what happened. He got banged up pretty bad and it totaled the living room," said Jessica Phillips, who helped White's family make temporary repairs Saturday, covering up the two gaping holes in the metal walls of the trailer.
White and his girlfriend's small dog had been lying on the couch when the Jeep hit, and there was concern at first that it was trapped under the car, Bachelder said.
"But we found her hiding under the next- door trailer. She was pretty scared and scattered so we brought her into the truck to warm her up," he said.
White and his girlfriend, Belle Wilcox, will be staying with relatives.
According to Franklin County Sgt. Steve Lowell, Kasean Dunphy Robbins, 18, who had just moved back to North Anson after living in North Carolina, was driving the Jeep registered to her boyfriend's father, Wayne Bredeau of Bray Hill Road in Phillips.
A reconstruction of the accident by state police Trooper Darren Foster showed that the car was traveling at 32 mph when it went into the skid, Lowell said. The SUV appears to have swerved across the road three times before slamming into the hard-packed snowbank in front of White's trailer, which is set back about 100 feet from the road.
The impact sent the Jeep sailing through the air and right through the living room wall next to a set of windows.
Robbins had been visiting a friend at the Bredeau residence Sunday and was going to town for pizza, Wayne Bredeau said.
He said Robbins was shaken up but not injured, and his car only had minor damage to the bumper and side mirror.
Betty Jespersen -- 778-6991
bjespersen@centralmaine.com
LINK (http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/1299326.shtml)