Woman rolls car on Chamberlain bridge

A woman was taken to the hospital Sunday night after her car rolled over and landed on its roof on the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge.

Police did not release the woman’s name or condition but said she had no visible injuries after her 1994 Chevy Lumina struck a cement sidewalk barrier as she traveled toward Brewer on Union Street at 10:30 p.m. No one else was in the vehicle, and police have not determined what caused the accident, according to Bangor police Officer Chris Morley. The bridge was closed for half an hour while crews swept broken glass from the road, and a tow truck flipped the crushed vehicle over.

Bonnie Lindsay was walking her dog on Union Street when the car flipped, just after it passed the Goodwill resale store, and ran to the accident to help the driver.

“She was talking and stuff. I was rubbing her back,” Lindsay said. “She was talking fine.”

Another car had just passed the Lumina from the opposite direction when it hit the cement barrier, flipped on its side and slid onto the roof, she said.

“The car just flipped right up in the air,” Lindsay said. “It scared the hell out of me when I heard it.”

A shirtless Glenburn man was arrested Sunday after he told police he was too tired to perform field sobriety tests. Christopher J. Morin, 29, was pulled over on Franklin Street in Bangor at 1:40 a.m. after a tow truck driver called police saying Morin’s white Buick was all over the road, according to police reports.

Morin got out of the vehicle, carrying his shirt in his hands, as Bangor police Officer James Hassard pulled up behind him. The man began stumbling toward Harlow Street in the traffic lane before turning back to talk to Hassard, who could smell alcohol on Morin’s breath from several feet away as he approached, according to reports. Morin said he had consumed four beers and shrugged his shoulders and swayed side to side when asked if he thought he was safe to drive, the report said.

Morin told the officer he could not perform the walk-and-turn part of the field sobriety test because he was tired from working long hours and offered to take a breath test before saying he was too tired for that optional test, the report said.

Morin was arrested for operating under the influence and later failed an Intoxilyzer test at the police department, according to reports.

A Bangor man was summoned for possession of drug paraphernalia Saturday after police pulled over the van in which he was traveling for running a red light.

After stopping the 1997 Pontiac transport van at 10:45 p.m. when it failed to stop at a traffic light in front of McDonald’s restaurant on Broadway, Bangor police Officer James Hassard saw a 40-ounce bottle of Milwaukee’s Best Ice beer behind a row of seats, according to police reports. The driver said he was driving friends home from a party and was unaware of the alcohol in the van, the report said. David R. Berry, 18, of Bangor said the beer was his but denied owning a second bottle of Milwaukee’s Best Ice and two 12-ounce bottles of Bud Light that Hassard found inside the vehicle.

Hassard also discovered a brown case with a marijuana pipe under the front seat, which Berry said was his, according to reports. The driver was ticketed for running the red light, and Berry was summoned for possession of drug paraphernalia.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Jackie Farwell