looks like ,from the damage to the trucks, that someone wasn`t doing the 35 mph in that zone.

eastbound truck just was paying attention and in too much of a hurry,

At least the police didn`t say it was alcohol related

I hope everybody turns out ok. I rolled up on the wreck moments after it happened. One victim was having a hard time remaining alert. My thanks to the Army medic, nurse and FF who were there. If I ever crack up on the road, I hope you three show up!

A head on collision can look that bad because of the combined speed of the impacting vehicles. Additionally, all newer vehicle have crumple zones to absorb impacts making cars look torn up even in low speed crashes. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that anybody was speeding.

Wow those two trucks look bad they should have shown the CRV that was in the accident.

hope everyone will be ok :)

The dark-grey truck on teh right side of the frame is surprisingly airbag-less.

Bangorssleeps airbags don't always go off in this sort of collision. Nobody knows at what speeds they where traveling when they impacted and at what angle they impacted. Airbags are known as SRS for a reason. It stands for Supplemental Restraint System. It is a system that is designed to work with seatbelts. Today’s SRS systems are much more advanced as well as seat belt technology. Airbags can cause you a great more deal of harm if they go off when they should not. Airbags today are very smart and only deploy when necessary so not seeing an airbag deployed is not a surprise to me.

I hate to use Wikipedia as a source but what they had posted is true.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag

Unlike crash tests into barriers, real-world crashes typically occur at angles, and the crash forces usually are not evenly distributed across the front of the vehicle. Consequently, the relative speed between a striking and struck vehicle required to deploy the airbag in a real-world crash can be much higher than an equivalent barrier crash. Because airbag sensors measure deceleration, vehicle speed and damage are not good indicators of whether an airbag should have deployed.

The store needs too add another entrace and not on route 9 either. It get very congested there because the gas tanks at the store, after someone gases up their vehicle, instead of moving IT they run in to the store and leave people hanging, so you have people lined up on the sides of the road trying to get in..

I doubt it is the decision of the store. MDOT regulates entrances and exits and I am quite sure in this case they probably told them they could not have any right of way onto 46 which is completely ridiculous.

opinionated -- I'm not positive, but, I think that is exactly the case. I live just a couple miles past this store -- generally speaking, it isn't that bad through there. However, it does get a little "ify" when a car is leaving Tradewinds and there is a car at the end of 46 turning right. It would have been nice if they could have gotten an entrance on 46, but, at the same time, it could have been deemed an inconvenience, as travellers would have to turn on to 46 and then into the parking lot... wouldn't bother me either way... I'm waiting for a traffic light to go up. My biggest gripe is when automobiles, specifically trucks (pickups or 18 wheelers) with trailers pull onto the side of the road heading towards Calais. It makes it viturally impossible to pull out of Tradewinds because you can't see what's coming.

I was told by a coworker that are close friends with one of the cars involved, that the woman driving the CR-V was talking on her cellphone and wasn't paying attention.

Doesn't surprise me any.

There use to be a lot where the store is now, and you could exit onto 46 and Rt9 until someone put a pile of sand on the Rt46 side to keep cars from passing through.