RICHMOND

A small boom truck hit a cross support Monday morning as it passed under a railroad trestle bridge on Route 24 in Richmond, according to Richmond Police Chief Scott MacMaster.

MacMaster identified the truck as a 1983 Ford owned by Fabian Oil in Oakland and driven by Clinton Bourgoin, 63, of 194 Water St., Waterville.

Bourgoin was driving north on Route 24 and as he passed beneath the railroad trestle, the highest point of the boom hit the bottom of the bridge cross support located in the middle of the bridge, according to MacMaster. The impact caused a hydraulic line for the boom to break, resulting in a minor spill of hydraulic fluid that the Richmond Fire Department cleaned up. The incident was reported at 10:20 a.m.

A cross support bent as a result of the impact, MacMaster said. A maintenance employee from the Maine Department of Transportation’s bridge crew was on scene shortly after the crash, working on the damaged area of the bridge. An MDOT engineer was summoned to inspect the bridge as well.

No charges were filed as a result of the incident, and no one was injured.

This is the second time in less than two months that a truck passing under the bridge struck the span. On Dec. 29, 2011, a freight truck driver from Monmouth also failed to clear the underpass, damaging the truck and spilling part of his load into the roadway.

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