Lyme — Only one person was injured in two separate crashes that occurred Wednesday night on Blood Street within minutes of each other, according to state police.

In the first crash, police said Hildegard E. Rennhard, 86, of 205 Blood St. was driving west on Blood Street around 10:48 p.m. when he lost control of his 1994 Saab 900S near Oak Street and hit the cable barrier guardrail running alongside the right side of the road.

Police said Rennhard’s car then flipped over the guardrail, went down an embankment and landed on its roof near the edge of Rogers Lake.

Crews extricated Rennhard from the vehicle and took him to Yale-New Haven Hospital with suspected minor injuries, police said.

Rennhard was not charged in the crash.

At 10:51 p.m., police said Matthew A. Greenbaum, 31, of Tiburon, Calif., was traveling east on Blood Street when he crashed the 2012 Subaru Impreza he was driving into a utility pole, then a mailbox near 98 Blood St.

Greenbaum and his passenger, 29-year-old Ashley M. Huckabone of Mountain View, Calif., were not injured in the crash.

Police said they charged Greenbaum with failure to drive in the proper lane.

According to police, the vehicle belonged to Suzanne Wind Gaskell of 115 Blood St.