TOPSHAM

Topsham police say the driver of a car kept driving after hitting a man who was directing traffic around a moving truck on Main Street Friday morning.

The incident happened around 9 a.m. Friday. Topsham Police Sgt. Robert Ramsay said the man was with some workers from Bisson Movers. The truck was pulled over across the street from 45 Main St. where the crew was doing a moving job. While one employee was making contact with the customer, the victim was trying to help get vehicles around the truck.

Ramsay said the man was standing at the front of the truck and had put up his hand to stop a silver Volkswagen hatchback traveling south and then turned his attention to the northbound lane.

And when he did that, the driver in the silver Volkswagen “didn’t care to stop for him and hit him,” pushing him into the truck after he bounced off the car. Ramsay said the victim yelled to the driver that they had hit him and to stop, but the driver sped away. He was confident it was a female driver, though he couldn’t provide a description. He also saw some stickers on the back window, possible a Sugarloaf sticker. The driver initially slowed down when the man yelled, Ramsay said, “so he’s pretty sure she knew he was hit.”

Co-workers took the man to the emergency room at Mid Coast Hospital immediately and it was a couple hours after the incident that police got a call. Ramsay said while the man had no legal authority to stop traffic, people usually stop as a courtesy. Ramsay was told the man was diagnosed with a fractured spine and lacerated leg. Released from the hospital, he had to go back when the swelling goes down.

Ramsay said if anyone with information about the driver of the silver Volkswagen hatchback, they can call the police department at 725-4337.

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