A fun Saturday spent watching the truck mud runs in the Finson Road gravel pit in Bangor turned hazardous for a Milford man and several children who were involved in a beer-fueled car accident.

David Wilson, 36, was enjoying the unauthorized mud runs with his girlfriend, her two children, a friend’s child and about 200 bystanders. He allegedly had consumed a 12-pack of beer throughout the day. When the group decided to leave the mud runs to go have a barbecue, he took the wheel of a 1993 Ford utility vehicle.

Wilson drove out of the mud pits and missed a turn. The vehicle dropped facedown into a large ditch, according to police reports. Everyone in the vehicle suffered some type of injury, including Wilson, who had a large bruise and a cut over his left eye when rescue crews arrived at the gravel pit. The truck had about $5,000 in damage, including a broken windshield.

Responding Bangor police officer George Spencer Jr. said Wilson was repentant and cooperative. His blood alcohol level tested at .18 percent, over twice the legal limit.

Wilson was issued a summons for operating under the influence.

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A Millinocket man was arrested Saturday morning in Bangor on charges of domestic assault and violations of bail conditions.

Derrick J. Sirois was visiting his girlfriend in Bangor when they got into an argument about 2 a.m. after an evening spent at a local nightclub. His girlfriend told police that she slapped Sirois and he responded by punching her in the face. She went downstairs to escape him, according to police reports, but in the kitchen he hit her and took a large kitchen knife and threatened to kill her.

She told responding Bangor police Officer Butch Moor that she got away from Sirois through the back door, but he slammed the door on her hand. She then went out into the parking lot and called for help. Sirois allegedly followed her. She finally got into her car and went to her mother’s house. After police responded to her complaint, she showed them the knife marks Sirois had allegedly left on the kitchen wall and blood on the floors of the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom.

While the woman was speaking to Moor, she received a telephone call from Sirois’ grandmother in Millinocket, who said that Sirois had just called her from a pay phone at the Airport Mall Hannaford supermarket. He wanted the grandmother to pick him up, but she refused.

Officers found Sirois at the mall and arrested him. His girlfriend was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center for treatment of her injuries.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Abigail Curtis