By Stephen Betts
Bangor Daily News
OWLS HEAD, Maine — The driver of a car that crashed Thursday night was flown to a Bangor hospital.
Jennifer Pallitto was driving west on Route 73 — on the Ingraham Drive section — when her car missed a corner and struck a tree head-on.
Emergency crews had to use extrication equipment to remove the injured driver. Pallitto was taken to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport and then flown by a LifeFlight helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
Rockland firefighters, emergency medical staff and the Owls Head Fire Department responded to the crash.
The crash occurred at about 8 p.m.
No other details were immediately available but were expected to be released later in the day.
At the same time, Thomaston firefighters responded through mutual aid to a report of a fire at the Knox County Courthouse in Rockland. The incident turned out to be a small fire in an exterior light at the courthouse.
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