December 27, 2024
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Pickup driver rolls over truck after 85 mph chase

BANGOR – A Brewer man led police on a high-speed chase Thursday that began in Bangor and ended when the motorist crashed in Dedham.

Speeds reached 85 mph during the chase, and the driver, Kirk Davis, 33, nearly struck a Bangor police officer on a motorcycle, according to police accounts.

Miles away in Dedham, Davis lost control of his pickup truck and it rolled over twice, throwing him from the vehicle. Davis suffered several broken bones including his pelvis, Deputy Chief Peter Arno of the Bangor Police Department reported.

Davis was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor earlier Thursday, but a hospital nursing supervisor said that evening that no one by that name was being treated at the hospital. He was not treated at St. Joseph Hospital, also in Bangor, a hospital nursing supervisor from that hospital said.

The chase began after midnight when Bangor police officers tried to stop the allegedly intoxicated Davis as he drove out of the parking lot of the Ramada Inn with his pickup’s headlights turned off. Davis had been told to leave Barnaby’s Lounge at the inn, and authorities warned him not to drive because of his condition, Arno stated in an account to city officials.

Leaving the parking lot, Davis drove the wrong way down a section of Hammond Street as Bangor police Officer Dan Herrick, on a motorcycle, was coming toward him. Herrick ditched the motorcycle and dove off to avoid what Arno stated was a “certain collision.” Herrick was not injured.

Police officers pursued Davis on Interstate 395 into Brewer then to Route 1A and into Dedham where Davis lost control of the pickup truck by a construction site beyond the Lucerne Inn. Law enforcement officers from Brewer assisted efforts to stop Davis. Bangor officials said that they also were aided in the incident by law enforcement officers from the Maine State Police, Ellsworth Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department.

Davis has two previous OUI convictions and was driving with a conditional license that prohibits him from drinking any amount of alcohol and driving, according to the police. He is expected to be charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, eluding a police officer, operating a motor vehicle without a license, reckless conduct and driving to endanger.


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