Eddington man runs over mom

EDDINGTON – Mark Leavitt, 52, was backing his pickup truck out of his driveway onto the Main Road on Wednesday afternoon and, without knowing it, ran over his 79-year-old mother.

“His elderly mother apparently walked out behind his truck and he backed over her,” Deputy Frank Jennings of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday afternoon. “He didn’t realize she was outside.”

The good news is that the woman, identified as Catherine Leavitt, “seems to be fine,” he said.

Catherine Leavitt, who is a member of the town’s historical society and a retired nurse who worked at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, did “have marks on her clothing from the [truck] and an injury to her face,” Jennings said.

She may have a broken jaw or other bone fracture on the left side of her face, he said, but the injury is not life-threatening.

The woman was transported to EMMC. No information about the condition of Catherine Leavitt was available, an EMMC spokeswoman said on Wednesday afternoon.

The emergency call was made by Mark Leavitt at 1:41 p.m. from the house he shares with his mother. When Jennings arrived, the amount of blood in the driveway made him think the situation was much more serious.

“She was bleeding a fair amount,” he said, adding that injuries to the head and face often bleed a lot. “I’m just glad it worked out for her.”