THE VEHICLE OPERATED BY Cumberland County Sheriff’s Deputy Robery Mailman was struck Sunday afternoon after he’d stopped to assist a motorist whose vehicle had traveled off the roadway due to the snow-covered road conditions.
The Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Department is investigating a secondary crash involving one of its vehicles that had responded to a crash on Route 24 in Harpswell during the snowstorm Sunday afternoon.
According to a press release issued by the sheriff ’s department, Deputy Robert Mailman responded at 1:39 p.m. to Harpswell Islands Road on Route 24 in Harpswell to assist the driver of a vehicle that had left the roadway. After the responding tow truck had brought the vehicle back onto the road, Mailman brought his marked vehicle, with emergency lights activated, closer to the towed out vehicle so the driver could get back in the vehicle and leave the scene.
“Mailman had exited his cruiser, but the driver of the previously disabled vehicle had not,” the release states, and remained within the sheriff ’s department vehicle when a pickup truck struck the back of it. The impact pushed the cruiser approximately 100 feet across the road and into a guardrail.
The pickup truck was driven by James Dyer, 23, and carried a passenger, 26-yearold Mallory Perry.
Mailman and his passenger were uninjured. Dyer complained of neck pain and Perry, who is pregnant, complained of pain in her ribs. Both were transported to a local hospital and “the baby is apparently OK.”
The Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Office Accident Reconstruction Team is investigating the crash, which police say speed and weather appear to be factors in. Dyer was operating after suspension, the release states.
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