Photo -PHILIP A. HOLMES Emergency vehicles line Route 44 where a truck and a car collided Tuesday night near Antes Fort. The driver of the car was rushed to a hospital with very critical injuries while the other driver suffered very minor injuries, according to emergency responders.

ANTES FORT – A 20-year-old Jersey Shore man was killed Tuesday night in a violent two-vehicle collision on Route 44, according to state police.

Driving a 2005 Volkswagen hatchback, Milan Dodson was killed after he lost control of his car as he was traveling south on the two-lane road about 7:30 p.m., police said.

Dodson was attempting to pass other vehicles, using the northbound lane, police were told. He maneuvered back in the southbound lane upon seeing a northbound state Department of Conservation Natural Resources pickup truck approacing, witnesses told police.

However, as he was returning to his lane, Dodson lost control of his car, which slid counterclockwise back into the northbound lane, directly into the path of the truck, resulting in the collision, police said.

The crash occurred about a half a mile south of here.

The truck, driven by Arliss Rhinehart, 36, of Waterville, overturned and landed it driver’s side, blocking both lanes, police said.

The collision caused the hatchback to spin clockwise, resulting in it landing along the shoulder of the northbound lane, police said. Dodson, who was not wearing a seat belt and was partially ejected from his car, was rushed to UPMC Williamsport, where he died of his injuries, police said.

Firefighters from Antes Fort, Nippenose Valley and Jersey Shore responded along with Jersey Shore Area EMS. Rhinehart, who managed to climb out of the truck on his own, was treated at Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital.