Parkman man dies in Route 150 crash

PARKMAN – A Parkman man was killed early Saturday morning when a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer collided at a four-way intersection on Route 150.

Investigator Guy Dow of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department said Edward Tourigny, 29, the driver of the pickup, died at the scene of the 4:20 a.m. accident.

Dow said Richard Pratt, 36, of Guilford, driver of the tractor-trailer, was taken to Mayo Regional Hospital. He was treated, then released.

Dow said Tourigny’s 1991 Chevrolet truck and the 1996 International tractor-trailer owned by Z.W. Spack Trucking Inc. of Guilford were demolished.

He said Tourigny was traveling east along the Crow Hill Road, started through the intersection and was broadsided by Pratt, who was traveling south on Route 150. He said the tractor-trailer struck the driver’s side of the pickup truck slamming it into a snowbank and ejecting the Parkman man. The tractor-trailer flipped onto its side, skidded 150 to 200 feet through the parking lot of a small store and down over an embankment, he said.

Dow said eyewitnesses told him Tourigny went through a stop sign into the path of the tractor-trailer.

The investigator said there was no damage to KC’s General Store, owned by Carol Curtis.

Dow said Pratt was not wearing a seat belt. He said it did not appear that Tourigny was wearing a seat belt, because he was thrown from the truck. He said the accident remains under investigation.

State Trooper Marc Poulin reconstructed the accident, and officials of the Maine State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit inspected the tractor-trailer.

The intersection of Route 150 and the Crow Hill Road was closed to traffic for about seven hours. Police waited for daylight to reconstruct the accident. A state transportation crew cleaned debris from the road. Members of the Guilford Fire Department assisted with traffic control. Lt. Robert Young and Deputy Allen Emerson assisted Dow at the accident scene.