An 87-year-old Waterville woman was injured after she pulled out in front of a pickup truck at what was described as an “awful” intersection in Glenburn Wednesday evening.

Marion Paige was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, where a nursing supervisor could not comment on her condition. A Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy investigating the accident said he had been told initially that she suffered some broken bones but that her injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.

David Slater, 38, of Bradford was driving in a pickup truck north on Route 221 – the Hudson Road – when Paige’s Ford Taurus pulled out from the Pushaw Road into his path, Deputy Scott Young said.

Evelyn Emery lives nearby and heard the crash, then the sound of the pickup truck’s horn sounding continuously. She had her son call the police and went to investigate. She credits rescue officials with responding quickly, including paramedic Chuck Stitham, who lives down the street and arrived first.

Meanwhile, Emery’s father, Melvin Knowles, disconnected the horn from the battery and Emery brought out a blanket in case it was needed.

Emery said that the intersection of the Hudson and Pushaw roads has seen several accidents in recent years and that many motorists just don’t stop at the stop sign on the Pushaw Road. She estimated that 60 percent of motorists don’t stop at the sign.

“This corner is awful,” she said.

A Carmel man was injured and a 9-year-old racehorse had to be destroyed early Tuesday morning after a car struck two horses that had escaped from a pasture in Carmel.

The two horses were on the side of the Bemis Road, obscured by heavy fog and darkness when they were hit about 2 a.m., reported Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Tibbetts. A 9-year-old mare hit the car near the front driver’s side door and windshield, crushing the roof in, Tibbetts said. The other horse, a 3-year-old mare, was apparently knocked down but suffered only cuts and scrapes.

The driver of the car, Dennis Proudfoot, 18, of the Horseback Road in Carmel, suffered a bump on his head and was treated at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor.

Tibbetts said that the older horse, which was owned by Debra Stout of Carmel and had raced in Bangor, was so severely injured that it had to be put down. To get the other horse – owned by Stout’s boyfriend, Bernard Fournier, also of Carmel – Tibbetts blocked the road with his cruiser and managed to grab hold of the mare’s bridle.

The horses were being housed at a friend’s pasture when they somehow got out, Tibbetts said. It wasn’t known how long they had been free, but Tibbetts said it appeared that they had been running in the woods for a while.

Bangor police are investigating a burglary at Michaud Distributors on the Perry Road that occurred late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.

More than $1,000 was taken from moneybags inside a locked office, and it appeared that the burglar entered the building through an unsecured window at N.H. Bragg & Sons, which is connected to the Michaud building.

A delivery driver heading to the office to file paperwork early Wednesday morning discovered the front office door kicked in, according to the police report. Officer Brian Nichols reported that only one hinge remained on the door and that shoe prints could be seen near the doorknob.

A second door had also been forced open and was completely off its hinges. Nichols noted shoe prints on the door as well, and others were found on top of caging that surrounded the office and on crushed boxes of products stacked outside the caging.

Nichols said that a fingerprint was recovered from the desk.

A window in a garage bay door at N.H. Bragg had been pushed or kicked out and was believed to have been the point of entry for the burglary at Michaud Distributors.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli