RUMFORD — Selectman Brad Adley wants to know if something should or can be done about the traffic pattern on Route 2 at the McDonald’s restaurant entrance.

It’s a yellow dotted-line passing zone through a congested commercial area, he told selectmen and Town Manager Carlo Puiia on Thursday night. He asked Puiia to look into it with the Maine Department of Transportation.

The speed limit is 45 mph on the two-lane highway. There is no turning lane for westbound traffic turning left to enter the fast-food eatery, which would allow other westbound traffic to pass on the right instead of on the left.

What brought the pattern to his attention was a fatal accident on the night of Oct. 26.

At about 8:39 p.m., Francois Goyette, 40, of Stoke, Quebec, was heading home on a 2006 Harley-Davidson Road King, while Shane Child, 39, of Mexico was driving a 2005 Chevy Avalanche pickup, Rumford police officer Brad Gallant said the night after the accident.

Both men were traveling west. Gallant has yet to release the cause of the accident, which was being reconstructed by Oxford County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Justin Brown.

However, Adley said the motorcycle was passing the truck when the truck turned left in front of it to enter McDonald’s.

Goyette was pronounced dead at Rumford Hospital.

Adley, who owns Adley’s Auto Sales and Service on Route 2 at the top of Falls Hill, was called to the scene to remove damaged vehicles with his tow truck.

“This is something that I just want to throw out there for the board to process,” he said Thursday night. “It’s nothing we really can do anything about, but it’s something that maybe Carlo can do with the DOT.

“My business was directly involved in the accident … and through the investigation — they had the insurance investigators there and state police and county guys — it came to light that that is a passing zone in front of McDonald’s,” Adley said. “In addition, the motorcycle was passing the other vehicle trying to pull into McDonald’s.”

He said, “It seemed odd to everybody that that happened to be a passing zone, with all the (congestion) there between the Marden’s turn, Oxford Lanes, Sherwin Williams and McDonald’s.”

“Again, it’s not in our scope to try to handle the traffic patterns, but the process, maybe it’s something Carlo can write a letter to someone and have them take a look at that section,” he said.

“And there are a lot of accidents in that area, and this one really hit home, because it was a fatal. Again, it’s not our scope, but just think about it.”

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