PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Gov. John Baldacci was injured in a car accident Wednesday morning when the SUV he was riding in went off an interstate and rolled onto its roof, officials said.
Baldacci's spokesman, Lee Umphrey, said the 49-year-old governor initially was fading in and out of consciousness following the accident, as was his state police bodyguard, James Trask.
Umphrey did not know the full extent of injuries, but said the governor did not suffer any broken bones and was undergoing a CT scan and other tests at Maine Medical Center in Portland, where he and Trask were taken by ambulance.
Trask was at the wheel when the accident happened about 6 a.m. on Interstate 295 in Bowdoinham, State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The SUV struck another vehicle and went off the road into some trees before coming to rest on its roof, he said. The driver of the car was being treated for painful but not serious injuries.
The first-term Democrat was on his way from Augusta, the state capital, to Portland to attend a Chamber of Commerce breakfast, Umphrey said.
There were many car accidents around the state Wednesday morning because of icy roads, police said, but there was no word if ice was involved in the governor's accident.
