HERMON, Maine — A Greyhound bus driver trying to get to Dysart’s Truck Stop and Restaurant on Tuesday wound up in a ditch while trying to turn his bus around on U.S. Route 2.
The driver — identified as 26-year-old Jamal Hinson of New York City — was the only person aboard the bus, Deputy Larry Estes of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday afternoon. Hinson was not injured, Estes said.
Estes said the incident occurred about 1:45 p.m. in front of Morgan Hill Event Center while Hinson was attempting to turn the bus around. The back end of the bus became stuck in a ditch. Soft dirt along the roadway hindered the driver’s efforts to get the bus back onto the roadway, Estes said.
Estes said the incident closed one lane of Route 2 for about an hour. The entire roadway was closed for about 15 minutes while a heavy-duty wrecker from Stewart’s Wrecker Service pulled the bus back onto the road.
That guy shouldn’t be driving a bus.
what? You’ve NEVER had an accident?
None that were my fault no.
Glass houses come to mind.
Ummmm he had AMPLE room to turn that bus around. He just backed into the ditch.
It appears that he might have gone past Dysarts and then attempted to turn his heavy weight bus around by backing into a private gravel driveway? Am I interpeting what happened here the right way?
Wet spring weather makes for soft gravel surfaces. Perhaps being from NYC the driver has not had a lot of experience in such things.
He wasn’t even on the driveway. That driveway is up the road further.
I looked at the picture and still dont understand exactly how he ended up getting the bus in that position.
he wasnt even in the right area for dysarts. definitely doesnt appear he knew exactly what he was doing. probably new to driving bus as he isnt that old.
Actually Coldbrook Road is less then half a mile from there…in the direction his front end is facing in the pic. Route 2 was closed shortly before school got out, I thought I was going to have to turn around and go onto the Bog Road into Hampden and all the way around to to be able to get to Billings to pick up my kids :( I waited it out and they finish moving the guy.
Im not that familiar with Hermon so I dont know exactly what distance is between the two places. Im pretty amazed that the bus would not havea GPS direction system or that the driver would have not studied the route before hand. It seems as though he might have been trying to come into Bangor to start his route down to NYC.
There wasn’t even a driveway where his rear is. I’m pretty sure.
I can only guess by the photo is that he pulled into the Morgan Hill Event Center Driveway and then tried to enter the road while backing into it. It is illegal to enter a highway by backing onto it I believe. Anyhow, it appeats the while backing onto the highway he did not cut the wheel enough and drove the rear of his bus into the opposite shoulder. Perhaps he isnt quite familiar with using mirrors yet?
…obviously his GPS failed to inform him of the impending ditch.
“recalculating”
why would he try to back into a dirt driveway when he could have turned into Morgan Hill and turned around plenty of paved area…..what was that driver thinking…
Probably never seen a dirt driveway before and curiosity got the best of him. After all he is from New Yawk.
I bet he dose not know the area ever think of that ??
Guess they should of kept it in Downtown Bangor
Now that they’ve moved you can see the old “Peter’s Candlelighter” sign that’s been buried under the Greyhound marquee for the past 30 years.
http://www.bangorbytes.com/2012/04/greyhound-departure-reveals-peters.html
This is just the beginning.
Give me 40 acres and I’ll turn this rig around!
LOL! Love it!
He’d need more than that.
Well, at least he knew where to go up there to eat !! LOL
“Soft dirt along the roadway hindered the driver’s efforts to get the bus back onto the roadway”
It has little to do with soft dirt, it has to do with the fact that he backed into a DITCH!!!! LOL
‘Twould be nice if the driver got out and “scouted” the area he planned to back up into. This is how tractor-trailer drivers and bus drivers are trained (if they have no ground guide), supposedly. If this is a harbinger of things to come, I cannot wait to see the fun the folks will have with this Greyhound thing leaving downtown and going to Dysart’s. Someone downtown at the old terminal is smiling right now about this one!
maybe he was headed back to get some chester chicken.in hermon
Subtle. I wonder if anyone else picked up on the hidden message in your post?
At least he didn’t run over the mailbox!!!
Reminds me of a guy that came to get a trailer load of Christmas Trees in the late 70’s, from NJ. Told him that there was plenty of room to drive in and turn around but of course didn’t listen, tried to back in and completely missed the 30 foot entrance. Put the trailer down an 8′ bank, had to use the bulldozer to get truck and trailer back on the road.
It’s even better being a woman at a construction/trucking company. Men refuse to listen to women in charge…. We should just let the men handle the big trucks and fancy levers while we stand to the side and oogle them…. barf.
If I’m from Maine and confused looking at the picture, the poor Driver must be……………I don’t know looking for a bus back to NEW YORKKKKKKKK CITY, LOL good for him for having a job as it were!
Drive much geesh not even close
Wow! How does one miss Dysarts? I mean seriously! The place is freaking huge. I have seen truck stops that you sneeze and they are a mile away now, but Dysarts????
Rule #1 put the back end into a parking lot first!
Rule #2 Now with the front end you can see where the ditch is.
Rule #3 He didnt give himself enough room (there is no driveway where he was backing).
Dysart’s is not on rt2 i bet he got off at the wrong exit
Go Concord, everybody!
Just plain strange. At least no one was hurt.
Lost?
Morgan Hill is nowhere near Dysart’s. I’m not surprised that another Greyhound driver is completely clueless.
A couple years ago I rode the Greyhound bus from Bangor to Portland. We ended up going to Eddington, turning around, going to Orrington, turning around, and we would have taken 395 over to Holden if I hadn’t finally pointed the driver in the right direction.
Concord Coach may cost a little bit more, but it’s well worth it if you want to end up in the correct city.
Thank goodness
I am amazed by the implication in this comment stream. I had no idea there could be so many people in the greater Bangor area who’ve never messed anything up before in their entire lives.