The crash occurred in the southbound lanes near mile marker 1 in Kittery about 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, when Trooper Robert Flynn stopped to assist a broken-down flatbed truck.
Matt Byrne
Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau. Matt grew up outside Philadelphia, moved to Boston to attend Emerson College and now loves living in Maine. When he is not nerding out on court documents or listening to a police scanner, Matt loves to work on old cars, make things out of metal and try new craft beers. Offers to drive your race car, or news tips, are always welcome.
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Courts, prosecutors, BMV agree to fix gap in license suspensions
Spurred by a recent crash in Oxford County, the agencies say they have created a process to make sure criminal conviction information that should trigger a license suspension is communicated to the BMV.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
Courts, BMV scramble to fix gap in state law that allows some convicted drivers to keep licenses
Top state officials promise to fix a blind spot in the law that did not clearly require the court system to notify the Bureau of Motor Vehicles that a driver had been convicted of killing someone on the roadway.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Update: Oxford County chase and crash reveals ‘systemic problem’ in license suspension system
The Secretary of State’s Office vows better tracking and follow-up of troublesome cases, and pushes the state courts to improve cooperation in keeping problem drivers off the road.
Posted inMaine, News, Oxford Hills
Bureaucratic error: Driver in bad crash in Oxford County shouldn’t have had a license
Convicted last summer of vehicular manslaughter, Ethan Rioux-Poulios should have been barred from driving for a decade. But an error by the courts and the BMV allowed him to keep his license. On Friday, he critically injured a woman in a police chase that ended in a wreck.
Posted inMaine, News
Penobscot County man dies after being arrested in Patten
Jeremy R. Lau, 46, died after he was arrested Tuesday in Patten, the Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, News, Politics
Ukrainian woman from Maine joins Rep. Pingree as virtual guest for State of the Union address
Acknowledging the escalating war in Ukraine, Rep. Chellie Pingree honored a Ukrainian-American woman from Old Orchard Beach as her virtual guest to Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Nation / World, News, Sports
Troy Barnies was playing pro basketball in Ukraine; his decision to leave was not an easy one
Troy Barnies, 33, struggled to decide when to leave the southeastern city of Mykolaiv as Russian troops drew closer to invasion.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Court appearance delayed again for Portland man held on murder charge in father’s death
Abdallah Salim Al Siraj, 22, who is accused of killing his father, is being held without bail and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
Bowdoin College hires a top state police official to help lead campus security
Lt. Col. William Harwood will retire from public service and become associate director of safety and security at the Brunswick college.