traffic crashes

Published
July 24, 2018

Maine lowering most fines on speeding tickets

A Judicial Branch study finds that penalties for lower-end infractions were higher than neighboring states, which some say led officers to write fewer speeding tickets.
Published
January 17, 2018

Pickup slides on snow and collides with train in Leeds

Traffic is stalled for two hours but no injuries were reported following the collision between the truck and a Pan Am Railways freight train at the junction of routes 219 and 106.
Published
January 8, 2018

Etna man charged with manslaughter in fatal head-on

Richard Lupo II was being held on $50,000 cash bail after being arrested by Penobscot County deputies in connection with the crash in August.
Published
January 3, 2018

Portland police say man stole father’s vehicle and crashed into cars on Congress Street

Police say the suspect is in custody and that numerous people were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
Published
December 8, 2017

Truck driver from New York is charged with manslaughter in Saco turnpike crash

Kenneth Hubbert driving an empty flatbed tractor-trailer, veered into the breakdown lane in Saco, killing a Texas man who had stopped along the roadway..
Published
November 29, 2017

Another View: Penalty for texting while walking in crosswalks not enforceable

Drivers are supposed to yield to the people on two legs, even if their noses are buried in a smartphone.
Published
November 20, 2017

One person dies in 2-vehicle crash in Greene

Authorities have not released the identity of the person who died on Daggett Hill Road.
Published
November 15, 2017

Collision with 2 pickup trucks kills car’s 17-year-old driver in Turner

The truck that first collided Alan Coffin's car pushed it into another pickup truck traveling along Route 4.
Published
October 20, 2017

At least one person dies in crash in Buckfield

Oxford County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the accident at the intersection of routes 117 and 124.
Published
September 25, 2017

Mother dies in I-95 crash; young children rescued after night in car

A truck driver spots the Bangor woman's car lodged between trees in the median, and rescuers pull her 2 children from the wreck.