Woman arrested after one-car crash

A Brewer police officer went to investigate a report of a car accident on South Main Street late Monday night and found the car with its front end on the ground and its rear end in the air, propped up by the metal pole it had run over.

The car also had struck a fire hydrant, sending the hydrant flying about 30 feet, reported Officer Jason Moffitt.

Moffitt noticed Shirley Severance, 26, of Husson Avenue in Bangor walking away from the accident scene and stopped to talk with her, believing she was the driver. Moffitt said Severance’s speech was slurred and that her eyes were glassy.

Despite complaining of injuries to her knees, the woman declined medical treatment by paramedics.

Severance admitted to being the driver and said something about having to avoid another driver, but Moffitt said he didn’t understand much of what she said. Moffitt had Severance perform field sobriety tests and reported she performed poorly on them.

Inside the car the officer found an open beer can in the front seat and an open 30-pack of beer in the back seat, he said.

Moffitt took Severance to the Bangor Police Department where an Intoxilyzer test registered her blood-alcohol content at 0.09 percent, slightly above the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Severance also had taken prescription medications that significantly contributed to her impairment, he said.

Moffitt charged Severance with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

A Bangor police officer who had issued a disorderly conduct warning to an Essex Street man early Tuesday morning hadn’t even left the apartment building when the disruption began again.

In addition to loud music being played from the third-floor apartment at 1:30 a.m., Officer Allen Woolley could hear the man he had just given the warning shouting, demanding to know who had called the cops on him. Scott Collins, 28, also shouted that since he paid rent, no one should have called the police.

This went on for about three or four minutes and Woolley returned to Collins’ apartment and arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Woolley reported that when he first arrived, he could hear the noise coming from 151 Essex St., four houses down, and that when he initially confronted Collins about the noise, the man said he would quiet things down. When he didn’t, Woolley returned and issued him a warning.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli