Concord Teens Injured During Early Morning Log Truck Crash In Stoddard: NH State Police

KEENE, NH — Two teenagers from Concord were taken to two hospitals on Thursday after a crash with a logging truck in Stoddard.

Around 4:45 a.m., New Hampshire State Police were sent to Route 9 for a report of a crash near a logging site involving a vehicle and a truck. The collision, troopers later learned, was at the Route 9 near the intersection with Route 123 north and south, Amber Lagace, a spokeswoman for the department, said.

State police said Kelsey P. Mayer, 18, of Concord, was driving a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze on the westbound side of Route 9 at the same time a 2016 Western Star truck, with an attached, unloaded trailer, “was preparing to back into the logging site,” she said. Mayer, who was driving with a passenger, Allison M. Yanski, 19, also of Concord, then drove into the logging trailer.

“Both Mayer and Yanski had to be extricated from their vehicle by emergency personnel,” Lagace said. “Mayer sustained serious life-threatening injuries in the crash and was transported by ambulance to Concord Hospital. Yanski was transported by ambulance to Cheshire Medical Center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.”

Donald J. Warner, 44, of Antrim, the truck driver, was not injured, Lagace said.

Route 9 was closed for more than six hours while responders investigated and cleared the crash.

Troop C troopers were assisted by Troop G troopers, the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit, firefighters from the Keene, Stoddard, and Sullivan fire departments, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, and EMTs with Diluzio Ambulance, and Peterborough Ambulance.

The crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information was 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.

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