A 34-year-old woman told police she was waiting for the bus on the corner of Patten and Third streets in Bangor at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, when a male pulled up in a black sedan with a sun roof and grabbed her, attempting to pull her through his driver’s side window.

The woman broke free from the man’s grip. The black sedan, with unidentified plates, took off.

Bangor police say the woman did not know her potential abductor but provided police with enough information to form a sketch. The sketch will be available later today.

The man is wanted for assault and attempted abduction. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Bangor Police Department at 947-7382, ext. 223.

A 1984 Chevrolet pickup truck went off the road, sideswiping a tree on Wednesday afternoon on Fuller Road in Carmel.

A neighbor called police when the truck missed a sharp turn in the road, left black marks in the asphalt for 10 feet and then hit the ditch, scraping a large tree and coming to rest in the branches of smaller, surrounding trees.

When Carmel firefighters approached the scene, they found Leonard Foltz, 45, of Stetson, curled up in the bed of the truck with his head resting on a spare tire.

The truck was registered to Kevin Daigle of Exeter, and when firefighters asked Foltz who was driving the car, he responded “Daigle,” Deputy Sean McCue, of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department, said.

Daigle was not present when emergency services arrived, but deputies found tracks behind a nearby residence and initially thought he had taken off into the woods. Later Daigle told police he had left the scene to find a residence where he could call police, McCue said.

In an interview with Daigle after the accident, McCue said Daigle denied he was driving the vehicle, and claimed Foltz had been driving.

“[Foltz] was extremely intoxicated … We can’t assume who the driver was. We just don’t know at this point,” McCue said.

The accident is under investigation.

A half-gallon of whiskey, which was three-quarters full, was found in the bed of the truck.

McCue said he assumes that both men were inside the truck when the accident occurred, but he said there was a possibility that Foltz was in the bed of the truck, where he was found by rescue workers.

Foltz was transported by Bangor Fire and Rescue to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, complaining of back pain. He was treated and then released.

When the deputy met up with Daigle, he noted that the man suffered no injuries.

Speed didn’t seem to be a factor in the accident, McCue said, but alcohol may have been.

A Carmel man’s drive home was disrupted on Wednesday afternoon when a Toyota 4Runner crashed into the passenger side of his Dodge Ram truck while he was turning left from Fuller Road onto Irish Road in Carmel, according to Deputy Josh Tibbetts of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department.

Jonathan Smith, 36, of Carmel, was driving home from work at around 4 p.m. when Joyce Caron, 28, of Fort Fairfield slammed into the passenger side of his vehicle, according to Tibbetts. After the impact, both vehicles came to rest in a ditch, 15 feet from the intersection.

“All of a sudden, my passenger side door was coming toward me,” Smith said.

Caron approached Smith from his right, traveling on Irish Road. Whether Caron stopped at the stop sign at the intersection is unknown, but Tibbetts said he assumed she did not.

Caron’s front left side of her car was heavily damaged, while Smith’s passenger side door was crunched inward, his windshield was cracked and passenger side window shattered, scattering glass over the road.

Tibbetts estimated $3,500 worth of damage to Caron’s vehicle and $6,500 to Smith’s truck.

Caron was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center by Bangor Fire and Rescue, complaining of neck pain, the deputy said. She was treated and then released, according to a hospital spokesman.

Tibbetts said he believed the accident was caused by driver inattention and nobody will be charged.

“I’m just lucky. Usually my kids are with me, and today they weren’t,” Smith said.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Toni-Lynn Robbins