Woman is trapped for hours in crushed car on Kahkonen Rd.

Photo: Tony Reaves, Sun Media Wire

TRAPPED — Rescuers use the Jaws of Life hydraulic tool to cut apart a car and free an injured driver Tuesday night off Eddie Kahkonen Road in Norway. Alyssa Senecal, 24, was injured when the car left the road and hit some trees, reported Norway Fire Captain Tim Yates. According to Yates, it took rescuers two hours to free her from the wreck. 

NORWAY — Nearly 30 firefighters from four towns scrambled for two hours Tuesday night to free an injured woman trapped in her crushed car on Eddie Kahkonen Road.

The crash happened around 5:17 p.m.

"She was pinned pretty bad," Capt. Tim Yates of the Norway Fire Department said. "It was definitely a long process to get her out of there. They did everything they could to free her, but the car was just so wrapped around the tree."

"The fire department was there almost immediately," said Beth Springer from the Norway Police Department Wednesday morning. Springer said there were no other passengers in the vehicle. 

Alyssa Senecal, 24, of Norway was transported to Stephens Memorial Hospital for some broken bones, said Springer. "I saw an update later that she'd been transferred to another hospital with severe, but not life-threatening injuries," she said. 

Springer said it was not clear which hospital Senecal was sent to according to the police report. 

Yates said it appeared Senecal's 2000 Buick went off the road, down an embankment and wrapped around a tree on the driver's side. He said firefighters extricated the woman from the car using mechanical means, but the process took nearly two hours in an effort not to injure her any further.

Firefighters from Norway, Poland, Paris and Oxford all responded to the scene and Bridgton provided station coverage.

The crash was being reconstructed and remained under investigation as of Wednesday morning. 

According to Springer, Paris Police Lieutenant Mike Dailey and a state police trooper plan to return to the crash site "to see if they can find any skid marks, indicating how fast she might have been going, but because of the rain, it's possible they won't find anything," she said.