AUBURN – A 23-year-old Rumford woman wrecked her car and put her passenger in the hospital Monday when she apparently passed out after getting a methadone treatment.
Melissa Newcomb of 76 Maine Ave., Rumford, told Auburn police Officer Barry Schmieks Jr. that she “must have fallen asleep and was jolted awake” when her 1997 Chevrolet two-door slammed into guardrails on Route 4 beyond East Waterman Road. The scene is near a small roadside cemetery.
In his investigative report of the crash, Schmieks wrote that Newcomb told him she “was just returning from the methadone clinic after getting her daily dosage.”
A passenger in Newcomb’s car, Monica L. Paul, 24, of 23 Sun Valley Circle, Mexico, was listed in stable condition at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston on Monday night, according to a nursing supervisor there. The nursing supervisor said she had no records that showed if Newcomb had also been treated at the hospital.
Damage to Newcomb’s car was estimated at $10,000. Police didn’t estimate damage to the guardrail, which was mangled in the crash.
There was no telephone listing for Newcomb at the address given to the police.
Methadone is a drug used to treat drug addicts.
Auburn police said there’s a methadone clinic in Portland.
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