February 3

Rome man seriously injured following high-speed chase

Kennebec Journal

BELGRADE – A Rome man was seriously injured Saturday evening after leading a Maine State Police trooper on a high-speed chase through Belgrade.

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The 1993 Ford pickup truck that rolled over after a high-speed pursuit through Belgrade Saturday evening.

Photo courtesy Maine State Police

George Day, 30, was taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center’s Thayer unit in Waterville, then transported to a Portland hospital with what Trooper Diane Perkins-Vance called “a potential life-threatening injury.”

Perkins-Vance said she was driving south on Route 27 in Belgrade about 6:30 p.m. when Day, driving his 1993 Ford pickup truck, passed her in the northbound lane, traveling 74 mph in a 55 mph zone.

Perkins-Vance chased Day at speeds up to 100 mph to Belgrade Village before he rolled his vehicle over on Dunn Road, she said.

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