BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine State Police are investigating a collision between a Brunswick police cruiser and a moose on an interstate highway.
Police say Brunswick police Lt. Lynne Doucette was pulling into the breakdown lane to check a vehicle on Interstate 295 when her cruiser crashed into the animal at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday.
Authorities said the moose was killed when it landed on the cruiser’s windshield. Doucette was taken to Midcoast Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
Funny when I drove by the scene the moose was in the median and there were only cop cars present…
The car on the side of the road that she pulled over for might have been watching the moose and took off when the collision happened. There used to be a lot of moose watchers north of Bangor that the Staties were constantly shooing away.
Happy that it was only minor injuries.
In one sense, maybe the moose watchers were safer drivers, pulling over and moose watching rather than risking a moose collision?
Maybe they helped call in the accident?
The moose was just trying to pull her over and she wasn’t cooperating.
There was a swampy median somewhere around Argyle when I often traveled from Houlton to Bangor years ago. There would be 5-6 cars lined up on both sides of 95 (even back when it was two way traffic) with people running across the road, cameras in hand, to see the critters down in that swamp munching away. That’s the kind of “Moose Watchers” that I mentioned, and it was very unsafe. :)
What is there to investigate? Moose in road,vehicle hits moose.I solved my first case…
i wonder if she was texting or was the moose texting?
good one..
now we have the needless death of Off. Bullwinckle by some crazy female driver.
OK, how can she pull off into the breakdown lane and not be watching where she was going? Was she nearly asleep?
Is she gonna be charged with murder of da moose now
Ammunition is cheaper than cruisers but please wait for open season. They don’t taste very good this early. (by the way: been there, done that, wasn’t pretty,; still have the picture.)
Where exactly is Midcoast Memorial Hospital? I am familiar with Maine Coast Memorial in Ellsworth, and Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. But Midcoast Memorial is a new one to me.