KEENE, NH – Two Concord women sustained serious injuries in a crash involving a car and a log truck Thursday morning.
According to news releases from New Hampshire State Police and Stoddard Fire, the crash occurred around 4:45 Thursday morning on Route 9 near a logging site between the junctions of Route 123 North and 123 South.
A preliminary investigation by NHSP indicates that Kelsey Mayer, 18, was driving a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze west on Route 9 at the same time a tractor trailer with attached, unloaded trailer was preparing to back into the logging site. The Chevy Cruze reportedly struck the trailer in the westbound travel lane.
The driver of the truck, Donald Warner, 44, of Antrim was uninjured in the crash.
Mayer and her passenger, Allison Yanski, 19, were heavily entrapped in the vehicle and had to be extricated, which Stoddard Fire says was an extensive and complex process due to the weight of the trailer and the position of the vehicle.
Mayer sustained serious, life-threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to Concord Hospital. Yanski was taken to Cheshire Medical Center with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
Stoddard Fire and NHSP were assisted on scene by DiLuzio Ambulance and fire crews from Keene and Sullivan, while additional crews from Marlow and Antrim covered the Stoddard fire station.
A section of Route 9 was closed for more than six hours while crews investigated and cleared the scene.
The crash remains under investigation, anyone with further information is asked to contact Trooper Eric Torrens of the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction unit at 603-545-4396, or Eric.M.Torrens@dos.nh.gov, or Stoddard Fire Chief Trevor Anderson at 603-732-8033, or Trevor.Anderson@firerescue.us.
