Bangor woman run over by her own car

A Bangor woman was hurt Friday morning after the car she had just jumped out of in her driveway ran over her leg, according to police reports.

Marrie Allen, 55, told police she was “revving” the engine of her 1990 Oldsmobile in the driveway of her Highland Avenue home at around 10:15 a.m. When she put the car in gear to leave, the brakes wouldn’t work and the car continued to accelerate, she reported.

Allen “panicked” and jumped out of the vehicle, but as she did, the front left tire rolled over her leg, police said. Her condition wasn’t known Friday night.

After it ran over Allen’s leg, the car crossed Highland Avenue and Ohio Street, smashed through two fences at 133 Ohio St., and finally stopped against a concrete wall near Everett Street.

The wayward vehicle didn’t injure anyone else. The Oldsmobile had about $500 in damage.

Bangor police reunited a woman with her purse Friday, shortly after someone broke through a car window with a baseball bat and ran away with the loot.

The woman’s mother called police around 12:50 a.m. and said she had heard a “bang” and saw someone running away from her car on Husson Avenue with a baseball bat. She went out to check the car and found the passenger’s side window broken and her daughter’s purse missing, according to police reports.

The purse held all the young woman’s identification, ATM and credit cards, checks and about $100 in cash.

Officer Brandon Vafiades quickly began searching around ATMs and convenience stores in the area, looking for suspicious vehicles or people. He soon found what he was looking for at the Broadway Shopping Center.

Tanya Hyson, 19; Amanda Smith, 20; and Philip Bryant, 19, were sitting in a Chevy Lumina when he arrived. Vafiades recognized Smith and Hyson from previous motor vehicle burglaries and found that Bryant was out on bail for aggravated forgery, according to the police report.

Vafiades also noticed a baseball bat in the car.

Other officers arrived to help search the vehicle. They found the missing purse in the trunk along with several other items from previous motor vehicle burglaries in Bangor.

Hyson, Smith and Bryant were arrested and charged with burglary to a motor vehicle, a Class C crime. Charges of bail violation for Bryant and possession of Schedule Z drugs for Hyson, who had unprescribed pills, were added, police said.

Officers are working to return all the stolen items.

-COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER NICK MCCREA