BANGOR, Maine — A woman drove her car into the Meadow Brook gully between the Hannaford grocery store parking lot and Arby’s near the Bangor Mall on Sunday.
“We don’t know how she wound up in this position,” Bangor fire Capt. Frank Rollins said from the scene. “She appeared to be unhurt.”
The car, driven by Xiuping Ladd, 46, of Bangor, broke through the wooden fencing around the parking lot at around noon and ended up stuck in the mud about 30 feet down the gully. She was examined by an ambulance at the scene but was not transported to the hospital, Bangor police Lt. Tom Reagan said later in the day.
Recalculating Route…..
LOL
she didn’t have Allstate , it would have protected her from mayhem like this.. ;-)
If he retrieved the car already, as the caption says, where in heck was the car originally?
Also, that’s not Meadow Brook; that’s Penjajawoc Stream.
OMG NO!!! Oh the poor birds and skeeters and flies and everything else that breeds there. The driver needs to be turned over to the tree huggers. String her up in the stream as a reminder to those who want to harm all the slimy creatures in the swamp and the stream.
I think you’ve taken too many voodoo meds, man.
You don’t ALWAYS have to listen to your GPS!
I believe they were planning to build a Rite-Aid at this location…
Hahahaha !
that made me chuckle out loud Imperceptus…great comment
LOL I was wondering if she was at Rite-Aid last week.
Rite-Aid on Broadway gets a new drive thru, trailer truck loaded with butter careens off highway into the median, now this!
Are the machines taking control like in Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive? Stephen, say it ain’t so!
Put down the cell phone lady!
The NTSB needs to start having short range cell phone jammers installed on vehicles. If the vehicle is moving, the jammer is activated, between cell phones, texting, tweeting, etc. it’s not safe on the road any more.
what if youre a passenger?
Talk to the other occupants?
Then you should keep your eyes on the driver to make sure their eyes are on the road. Your life depends on it.
And how do you know the driver was using a cell phone?
Looking at the photo, she crossed the center line, broke through a wooden barricade, and continued for 30 feet. If there was no medical issues then it sure looks like distracted driving to me. Is the speed limit 25 or 35 there?
in a parking lot? 35mph seems excessive…
From the photo I would say it is the perimeter road. Speed limit varies from 15 to 35. But I’m not sure where it all changes.
Except she was in the Hannaford (Doug’s) Parking lot.
haha As the person who called 911….she was NOT on the road, she was in the parking lot
All the more reason for her driving privileges to be suspended.
It is against fedral law to jam cell phone signals. Anyone other then the feds get caught jamming cell signals face up to a $10,000 fine and/or loseing any or all of thier jamming equipment.
Yeah, because an emergency never happens when you’re driving, and you wouldn’t ever need to call 911 on the road.
And apparently it’s not safe off road either! They’ll run right into you with those averted eyes.
I heard a rite aid was going there lmao
That’s private property.
Looking for a shortcut? Driver could see a drive thru tunnel just ahead…
This does sound like driver inattention, but there is that whole section that continues on up the hill that has quite an embankment with fencing that could never keep a car from breaking through it if someone went off the road. I could see this happening in the winter when the roads were snow-covered.
Funny comments here! What more can I say? “Mike_Oxbiger” said it best; so maybe the city should take a looksee at diverting a web road across the marsh. Saves gas and time getting to the mall.
“Insert macho women can’t drive comment here”
I love macho women….
What no asian driver comment?
Yeah they gave her a ticket for D.W.A…………
The article states that she is 46
Wow. Rude.
Give us a break, online editor. All the guy said was “because it was a woman.”
Although the story has been updated to include the driver’s name, where’s the correction to the name of the water body?
No this is not the Tim Hortons drive thru.
Environmental Impact…….Splash! lol
Hollywood Slots fault I’m sure!!??
Gully gee Batman, thank goodness this citizen is alright!
just doing a little fishing
Must of had a Tom tom !
RECALCULATING!
Should have gone to Jared – it seems she didn’t buy a present…
Are you sure it wasn’t Garmin?
Definitely Garmin. Mine is only good as a paperweight.
New York City to Boston, Fung Wah bus driver vacationing in Maine ??
See where Texting and Driving gets ya???
Atleast she is okay. the wooden fence can get fixed. But Mike_Oxbiger said it best!!!
And they take down the one that was refering to the driver being female and not this one?
LOL! It has been now (per my prediction)!
They were about the same anyway: long held stereotypes.
When women started driving at the beginning of time, Men had to run in front of the car waving a flag.. We might have to reinstate that law.
Actually you are not accurate- men started driving before women, & the fact is, is that ANY driver back then had to have the red flag person….driving was an almost exclusively male thing….
Dear Editors – that is most definitely the Penjajawoc Stream. The Meadow Brook is a branch of the Penajajwoc that is further NE of this lcoation.
I don’t think they care anymore. See a post I made a few minutes ago.
A little early for a swim, not to mention cold.
Well, I guess there are three possibilities for the paper’s insistence that the car ended up in Meadow Brook (which is near Mount Hope Cemetery):
(1) The paper just doesn’t care about correcting mistakes
(2) The reporter and editors can’t read a map
(3) The reporter and editors got the information from the authorities
Even if (3) is true, that shows lazy journalism. It’s the reporter’s and editor’s job to verify such information. Reporters are to report the truth as best they can, not parrot whatever a firefighter or police officer says.
The disappointing thing about this goof is it’s part of a pattern. More than a week ago, the paper erroneously reported that in small claims court a defendant who doesn’t appear for the hearing can be arrested. Even though the mistake was pointed out early (before the story ran in the print edition) and the reporter himself posted a comment on another matter, no correction was ever made.
Then, of course, there is the paper’s constant attempt to revise the city of Bangor’s charter (and history) by proclaiming the City Council chair “mayor.”
Credibility is the commodity of journalists. When a journalists lack it, they lose the public’s trust. When that happens, circulation drops. When THAT happens, good people lose jobs because of declining revenue. Before you know it, the paper becomes irrelevant.
“We don’t know how she ended up in this position”…..I wish they had asked her, an incomplete story otherwise. Remember the journalist’s WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY? Where is the WHY?
You can’t get there from here…
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I hope she never tries to parallel park near my car.