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A driver readily accepted his OUI charge after escaping unharmed from driving over a steep embankment in Bangor early Wednesday.
Bangor police Officer Brad Hanson reported that at about 2 a.m. he and other officers were sent out to look for an accident. The dispatcher said the Maine State Police informed the department that somebody had driven “off a cliff” in Bangor.
Hanson said he went to Fourteenth Street Extension, because it was “the only area that I could think of that had a ‘cliff’ near it.”
Hanson found a section of the road where the trees had been broken off. A man with blood on his head and hands was sitting on the guardrail. Hanson looked over the guardrail and saw a red sports car upside down.
The man, Jason Wade, refused medical treatment. Hanson said Wade told him, “Just take me to jail.” Hanson could smell alcohol on Wade’s breath, and asked if Wade could feel the effects of it. Indicating the car, Wade said, “Well, yeah.”
Wade said he was driving up the hill when his tires “locked up.”
Hanson said the car lay against a tree 75 feet below the roadway. The embankment continued another 75 feet down. Hanson identified the car as a 1998 BMW Z3 convertible, with roll bars, adding that “the roll bars saved Wade’s life.”
Wade was summoned for operating under the influence.
A motorcyclist was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center after colliding with a car Tuesday afternoon in Bangor.
Bangor police Officer William Lawrence reported that at about 5 p.m. Jeremy Larcombe, 20, of Eddington was driving a red 2004 Kawasaki south on Broadway, in the right lane, when a red 1995 Pontiac driven by Nichole Dionne, 20, of Bangor pulled in front of him from the northbound lane. Dionne was attempting to turn onto Falvey Street.
Larcombe complained of back pain, Lawrence said, but Dionne was not injured. The Pontiac received $2,500 in damage, and the Kawasaki $2,000.
Lawrence said the drivers and witnesses agreed that both drivers had green lights, but the motorcycle had the right of way. Traffic in the left southbound lane had stopped to allow Dionne to turn, and she said she didn’t see the motorcycle coming.
Larcombe was in fair condition Wednesday night, according to EMMC staff.
– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball
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