SABATTUS — Police said a vehicle crash that killed a Lewiston driver on Sabattus Road on Monday is still under investigation. Police Chief Gary Baillargeon said Tuesday that the family of Rebecca Stewart, 28, of Sabattus and her passenger, a 5-year-old child, requested that their medical information not be released. Both were hospitalized following the […]
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19-year-old Standish driver dies after losing control, hitting tree
STANDISH (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old driver has died in Standish, Maine, after he lost control of his car and it hit a tree. The Cumberland County sheriff’s office says Trey James, of Standish, died at the scene from injuries early Thursday. He had been traveling south on Cape Road in Standish when lost […]
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Preliminary report on fatal Livermore Falls accident released
AUBURN — A preliminary accident report from the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office found that a pedestrian entered Park Street and failed to yield the right of way to a Livermore Falls police cruiser in a fatal accident late on Oct. 28. Pedestrian Joseph Slaver, 23, of Livermore Falls, died Oct. 31 from injuries suffered in […]
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Wilton man identified as Strong crash victim
FARMINGTON — The identity of the man killed in a fiery head-on collision in Strong this week has been identified as Rusty Knox, 35, of Temple Road in Wilton, according to Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. “Mr. Knox was married with four children,” Nichols said in an email. Knox was driving Tuesday night on Lambert […]
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Rangeley man charged with OUI in fatal crash in Strong
UPDATE: Rangeley man tells deputy he drank too much in fatal accident STRONG — A Rangeley driver was drunk and speeding when his truck crossed the centerline on Lambert Hill Road on Tuesday night and struck another truck head-on, killing the driver in a fiery wreck, police said. Mark Garner, 24, of Rangeley was arrested at the […]
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Vienna woman dies, 3-year-old child injured in accident
VIENNA — A local woman died and her child was injured Wednesday afternoon when her truck left Tower Road, rolled several times and she was ejected, Cpl. Diane Vance of the Maine State Police said Thursday. Misty McKechnie, 36, was pronounced dead at the scene, Vance said. The accident was reported at 3:25 p.m. McKechnie’s […]
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Lewiston man involved in fatal crash in Topsham
TOPSHAM — A 90-year-old woman was killed and several people hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon on Route 196 near the Lisbon town line. The crash occurred at 3:41 p.m. near West Merrill Road, along a 2-mile section of Route 196 that has seen three other fatal crashes in less than three years. Jean […]
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Warren woman killed in 3-vehicle Topsham crash
UPDATED: TOPSHAM — A 90-year-old woman from Warren was killed Wednesday afternoon when a car, van and commercial truck collided on Route 196. Topsham police said Jean Brusila, 90, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after a three vehicle accident on Route 196 in the area of West Merrill Road. Police said a vehicle […]
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Kingfield woman accused of misleading police in fatal Farmington accident
FARMINGTON — A Kingfield woman is accused of misleading police in an effort to help her boyfriend “conceal” a crash that killed a Wilton woman on Wilton Road early Jan. 1. Nikita Tolman, 27, was indicted Thursday on a felony charge of hindering apprehension or prosecution and a misdemeanor charge of filing a false public […]
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Two women die in ‘tragic and complex’ crash in Litchfield
LITCHFIELD — Two West Gardiner women died Tuesday morning when the car they were in and a tractor-trailer collided at Hallowell and Lewiston roads, according to Maj. Ryan Reardon of the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office. Driver Grace Marston, 92, died Tuesday evening at a Lewiston hospital; her front-seat passenger, Anita A. Wade, 82, was pronounced dead […]