By Bonnie Washuk,Staff Writer

AUBURN -An unidentified woman who was thrown from a motorcycle was left in the road and abandoned after being critically injured early Saturday, police said.

Two men driving two motorcycles took off after the crash, leaving the woman bleeding in the street, said Auburn Police Department acting Chief Phillip Crowell Jr.

“For them to leave someone, who was at least an acquaintance, on the road bleeding with serious injuries is alarming,” he said. Regardless of whether they were intoxicated, they fled “leaving a life at stake.”

A Fairview Court resident heard the crash, pulled the woman from the road and called 911. Police said that resident is a hero and may have saved the crash victim’s life.

On Saturday night, the woman lay in her Central Maine Medical Center bed in critical condition, without friends or family at her side.

Unable to determine her identity, police released her picture to the media Saturday night, making a plea to the public to help them find out who she is. Anyone who recognizes the woman is asked to call Auburn police at 784-7332.

“This is not how we typically make notification to family members,” Crowell said. “However, we think it’s important to have a loved one by a person’s side,” and to help doctors decide on any medical treatment decisions, he said. From her hospital bed, the woman has been “unresponsive,” and police have not been able to communicate with her.

The women is described as between 28 to 32 years old, is 5 fee, 2 inches tall, and weighs between 120 to 130 pounds. She has brown hair with blonde highlights, blue eyes and no identifying tattoos, but does have a navel ring and a scar that appears to be from a C-section, police said.

The woman was wearing a white tank top and a jean skirt. She wore a diamond ring which may be an engagement ring, Crowell said.

The crash happened at 1:11 a.m. on Fairview Court, when a resident woke to the sounds of motorcycles revving their engines.

“She heard a crash, went outside and observed two motorcycles leaving the scene toward Fairview Avenue.” The woman rendered immediate care to the victim and called for help.

If the resident had not acted, the victim may not have been found until morning, since Fairview Court “is a quiet street,” Crowell said. Not having immediate medical care would have further jeopardized the woman’s chances of survival, he said.

“This is what we want every neighbor to be like. To hear something that causes alarm, look and see, then act.”

Crowell said the good Samaritan did not wish to be identified.

While police try to identify the crash victim, they also are looking for the operators of two motorcycles.

The witness told police the motorcycles sounded like Harley-Davidsons. Police have collected evidence at the crash scene that will help them identify the motorcycles, Crowell said. Information about the crash has been sent out to other police agencies.

Police know the injured woman was a passenger on one of the motorcycles, and not a pedestrian, because she had road rashes and other injuries consistent with a motorcycle crash, Crowell said.

He declined to list her other injuries, saying the case is under investigation.

The men who fled on motorcycles face a Class C felony of leaving the scene of accident where there has been a serious injury.

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