BELFAST, Maine — A man who suffered a heart-related medical emergency while driving and crashed his vehicle Wednesday has died, according to police.
Edgar Parent, 85, of Brooks “for no apparent reason drove right off the road and into the ditch” on Waterville Road on Wednesday, Belfast Police Chief Jeff Trafton said Friday.
When paramedics arrived, they immediately performed CPR and took Parent to Waldo County General Hospital. Trafton was told that Parent “must have had some open heart surgery because there was a scar.”
An obituary published in the Republican Journal newspaper states that Parent died in the hospital on Thursday.
According to the obituary, Parent “was a well decorated Army Air Corps veteran of World War II; he had 25 missions over Japan just after the atom bomb was dropped. He was an avid golfer and loved country music and ’40s Big Band music.”