Maine State Police are investigating a crash involving a horse-drawn wagon and a vehicle in the northern part of the state, the third recent similar incident.
Troopers said the accident happened shortly before 8 a.m. Sept. 12 on Benedicta Road in Sherman.
A 2003 Toyota pickup attempted to pass the wagon but did not have enough room and struck it.
The wagon operator was ejected and landed on the road. He was taken to Houlton Regional Hospital with injuries police said were not life-threatening.
But the wagon was destroyed, and the horse suffered a cut to its leg and foot.
The driver of the pickup, Lindsay Duffy-Stanley, 42, of Benedicta, was not hurt. Police said Duffy-Stanley was cited for driving to endanger.
In February, an Easton man trying to flee police crashed into a horse-drawn Amish wagon in Presque Isle that was carrying children.
Last April in Norridgewock, a 34-year-old Skowhegan woman was charged with driving to endanger and several traffic violations after police say she crashed her car into a horse-drawn buggy while trying to pass it.
According to data from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, there have been 33 collisions between motor vehicles and horse-drawn buggies in Maine over the past decade. One person died and three suffered serious injuries. At least two horses have been killed in collisions. And in another collision, an infant was thrown from a buggy.
In upstate New York earlier this month, eight people were thrown from a horse-drawn wagon and a horse died after a car hit the wagon.
And just three weeks ago in Acadia National Park a horse-drawn carriage rolled over.
