Manufactured home strikes bridge, slows traffic on I-95

Traffic on Interstate 95 was backed up almost a mile Monday evening in Bangor after a truck-borne manufactured home struck the Essex Street overpass.

Maine State Trooper Adam Coover said the home was a couple of inches too high, and lost part of its roof, including rafters and large pieces of plywood.

Coover said Bangor police stopped the driver at his destination on Essex Street, where Coover summoned him for hitting a bridge, driving without an oversize load permit, leaving the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident by the quickest means. The man worked for Trailer Transport, in Holden.

The nail-laced wreckage spread over both lanes. It caused traffic to bottleneck, backing up to the Stillwater Avenue exit. Two large plywood panels were lodged in the overpass and dangled over the road. Coover said it took about an hour to clear the scene.

Bangor police arrested a man Sunday after he allegedly threw boxes at his girlfriend.

At about 4:15 p.m. Officer Dan Herrick went to a Highland Lane address for a report that a woman there had locked herself in the bathroom. The woman said her boyfriend had assaulted her, and that there were firearms in the house.

Herrick said Officer Rob Angelo was already there when he arrived, speaking with Carl Boutilier. Herrick said the complainant came to the door in tears as he arrived, saying Boutilier had assaulted her.

Herrick said the woman told him she and Boutilier had moved in together in March, but she recently had been rethinking their relationship. She said she spent the previous night at a friend’s house, then came home and took a shower Sunday morning.

The woman said she and Boutilier started arguing as she came out of the shower, and Boutilier started throwing her clothes down the stairs, threatening to throw her out without them.

She said Boutilier pushed her down and threw cardboard boxes at her, causing cuts and bruises.

Boutilier said his girlfriend had grabbed him, and he had just grabbed her back.

Herrick had Angelo arrest Boutilier and charge him with assault.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball