TURNER, Maine — A police lieutenant in Maine and two others suffered serious injuries when another driver crashed head-on into his police cruiser in Turner while the lieutenant was on his way home from work on Monday, authorities said Tuesday.
Monmouth Police Lt. Dana Wessling, 52, of Turner, was extricated from his cruiser and flown to Maine Medical Center in Portland with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The other driver, Sean McNeil, 41, of Minot, and his passenger, a 47-year-old woman from Turner, were both taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The conditions of Wessling, McNeil and the unidentified woman were not known on Tuesday.
On Monday, at 4:49 p.m., the Androscoggin County Regional Communications Center received a report of a two-vehicle, head-on crash at the intersection of Turner Center Road and Bradford Road in Turner.
Deputies along with Turner Fire-Rescue were immediately dispatched to the scene, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said.
A preliminary investigation found that Wessling was traveling west on Turner Center Road in his take-home cruiser, a black 2022 Ford Interceptor that is owned by the Town of Monmouth.
McNeil, driving his silver 2013 Ford F150 pickup truck, was traveling east on Turner Center Road when McNeil came around a curve, crossed the center line and was in Wessling’s lane when the two vehicles collided, authorities said.
Both vehicles had extensive front-end damage and were totaled, authorities said.
Wessling, who was on his way home at the end of his shift, had just picked up his 7-year-old son at daycare, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said. His son was taken by private vehicle to a local hospital to be examined for precautionary reasons.
Investigators from the sheriff’s office and the Lewiston Police Department were on scene to reconstruct the crash.
The crash investigation remains under investigation.
Turner is a small town in Maine, just north of Lewiston. The town’s population was 5,817 at the 2020 census.
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