HANCOCK — A 78-year-old Milbridge man lost control of his pickup truck this afternoon and slammed into a mobile home on Route 1.

The owner of the house, Cecil Havey, said the driver identified himself as Paul Martin.

“He told me he dozed off and went off the road down the big ditch,” Havey said.

Martin’s truck traveled across the neighbor’s lawn, across a gully and then careened over Havey’s lawn before slamming into the mobile home.

The truck knocked down branches, uprooted a small tree and crushed lawn furniture in its path.

Havey and his wife, Joan, were sitting in a back room talking when the truck hit their house.

“We heard a loud bang,” Joan said. “I thought it was an earthquake.”

“I went out,” Cecil said, “and he was holding onto his nose. I think he hit it pretty hard.”

Bottles in their corner liquor cabinet were tossed from the shelves upon impact.

The Haveys said the collision occurred about 1:25 p.m.

Martin was taken to Maine Coast Memorial Hospital.

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