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A state trooper and a tow truck driver narrowly avoided a crash with a car Saturday morning in Old Town when an oncoming Isuzu slid sideways past them, tearing off one of the wrecker’s mud flaps.
Trooper Forrest Simpson Jr. had parked in the northbound passing lane on Interstate 95 near Exit 52 to assist a driver whose Cadillac had slid into the median about 11 a.m. Saturday, Simpson said.
Simpson was sitting in his cruiser while an employee of an Old Town-area towing service was trying to pull the Cadillac out of the median.
“I happened to look up in my rearview mirror when I saw a silver Isuzu sliding sideways down the passing lane,” Simpson said. “I was bracing for the impact when I saw it go around me.”
The Isuzu clipped a mud flap on the tow truck as the wrecker’s driver dived off the side of the road and into the median, Simpson said.
While the accident wasn’t reportable because damage to the tow truck did not exceed $1,000, the Isuzu never stopped. Simpson wasn’t sure whether the driver knew he had struck the truck’s mud flap.
Lack of visibility and poor driving during Saturday’s storm led to the close call, Simpson said.
“People were just driving way too fast for the conditions,” he said. “They needed to slow down.”
Police had neither evidence nor suspects Sunday after a vandal smashed the windshield and passenger side window of a truck parked on Winter Street in Bangor during the weekend, police Officer Robert Hutchings Jr. said.
The 1995 Nissan pickup had been parked in front of 35 Winter St. when someone smashed out the windows between 10:30 p.m. Friday and 10:26 a.m. Saturday. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $600.
About $180 worth of items were reported stolen from a Levant woman’s car when she left her vehicle unlocked in a parking lot at the Bangor Mall, Bangor police Officer Dennis Townsend said.
The 32-year-old woman had parked her car near Sears about 1 p.m. Friday and returned at about 9:20 p.m. to find her glove box open and two compact discs and a radar detector missing.
A thief swiped a snow scoop valued at $30 from a Parkview Avenue family’s home Saturday afternoon, Bangor police Officer Robert Hutchings Jr. said. Neighbors watched as a man of average build, wearing a blue and white plaid shirt, walked up to the garage’s open door, grabbed the scoop, and walked away toward State Street. The scoop was valued at $30.
– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton
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