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The at-large ATV that allegedly struck and dragged a Limington landowner on Tuesday night. (Courtesy of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife)

The Maine Warden Service is searching for the owner of an ATV that allegedly hit and dragged a landowner on Pequawket Lake Road in Limington on Tuesday night.

The landowner stopped an ATV rider who had been driving at high speeds on the road to tell him to slow down, according to a news release from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The landowner was trying to take pictures of the vehicle and its registration when the rider accelerated, struck the landowner and dragged him approximately 75 feet before driving away, the release stated.

The landowner was treated at the hospital for abrasions and contusions and was released Tuesday night.

The ATV was a one-bench, side-by-side, gray-and-black model with a large bush guard on the front. The driver was a male wearing an orange shirt and was accompanied by a female passenger with dark hair.

A Facebook post by Trail Master Dylan Conley from the Limington Wheelers ATV Club states that game wardens are examining footage from the club’s cameras, which were installed last week in response to landowner complaints about disruptive behavior by some ATV riders.

Conley wrote on Tuesday night that he had just left the scene and called on local landowners with surveillance footage along the trail system by Pequawket Lake Road to share footage taken between 8:33-8:50 p.m. with the club, local game wardens and state police.

The Maine Warden Service asked anyone with information about the incident or vehicle operator to contact the Augusta dispatch center at 207-624-7076 or Maine Operation Game Thief at 800-253-7887 or maineogt.org to remain anonymous.

Madeleine is a community reporter for Gorham, Buxton and Standish. She started her journalism career in Vermont, where she reported for Seven Days and served as the editor-in-chief of Middlebury College's...

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