Two men receive summonses after road rage incident in Bangor

A Glenburn man with 18 prior convictions was charged with driving to endanger after running another vehicle off Essex Street in Bangor Tuesday.

Around 3:15 p.m. Bangor police received a call of a car that had flipped end-over-end near 1795 Essex St. Upon arrival, officers found Gary Gates, 55, of Hermon sitting on the side of the road wrapped in a blanket. His car was about 180 feet off the road where it landed after hitting a tree, knocking it over and then knocking down a few others.

Gates had cut off a white truck while turning onto Essex Street from Forest Avenue, according to reports. The truck tailgated Gates while he tapped on his brakes and wouldn’t let it pass. A school bus was coming over a hill when the white truck tried to pass. The truck pulled back into its lane to avoid a collision with the bus, but hit Gates’ car, which went off the road.

A witness got the license plate number of the truck, and he was contacted. Travis Adams, 24, of Glenburn was asked to come back to the scene of the crash with his female passenger. According to reports, they had already come back, but Gates wanted to fight them. A witness advised them to leave, said police, because Gates was upset.

Three witnesses agreed that it was a road rage incident.

Gates suffered internal chest injuries, according to police. He was issued a summons for speeding up while another vehicle was attempting to pass.

Adams was issued a summons for driving to endanger.

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A tractor-trailer rolled over on U.S. Route 193 in Cherryfield around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon.

According to State Trooper Michael St. Louis, the truck was hauling wood chips for the Maine Biomass Power Co. in Deblois. The driver took a sharp corner in Cherryfield about two miles away from the plant, and one of his front wheels went off the road. He corrected his steering, and the load in the trailer shifted, causing the truck to roll off the road. It wasn’t something he could do anything about, said St. Louis.

The road was shut down for four hours while the accident was cleaned up.

The driver was taken to Down East Community Hospital with lacerations to his face and neck and a possible broken wrist.

The road is passable, but part of the pavement was lost in the accident. Crews will be out on Wednesday to repair the damage, according to St. Louis.

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Students were evacuated Tuesday morning from the James F. Doughty School after a bomb scare.

Students at the middle school on Fifth Street in Bangor were moved to the nearby Vine Street Elementary School, superintendent Robert “Sandy” Ervin said. By 1:15 p.m. all but 10 students had been picked up or walked home after their parents were contacted by school officials.

Police swept the building and grounds but found no bomb.

A note written on the wall of a boys bathroom said there was a bomb in the school, Ervin said Tuesday after a special school committee meeting held at Bangor City Hall. It did not state where the bomb might be located or when it might be detonated.

-COMPILED BY BDN REPORTERS CHELSEY LEDUE AND JUDY HARRISON