CANAAN, Maine — Speed and alcohol may be factors in a single-vehicle crash early Monday morning that sent two men to the hospital and left a porch with extensive damage, according to Detective Lt. Carl E. Gottardi II of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department.
A 2007 Chevrolet Avalanche pickup truck driven by Timothy Williams, 21, of Clinton left Hill Road while traveling north at about 1:04 a.m. Monday.
“The truck became [airborne], struck a utility pole and some trees, and then the right front of the truck struck a porch at a private residence,” Gottardi said in a statement. “After striking the porch, the truck came to rest against a parked car [in the driveway].”
Williams and his passenger, Sterling Hartin, 19, of Benton, were taken to Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan. Williams was later taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with possible head and arm injuries. Hartin suffered possible back injuries. Neither man was wearing a seat belt, said Gottardi.
An EMMC spokesman said he had no information on Williams at noon Monday.
The porch had extensive damage and the parked car had minor damage, but no one at the residence was injured, according to Gottardi. The pickup was a total loss.
“At this time, speed and alcohol may be factors in the accident,” said Gottardi. “Once the investigation is completed, the case will be reviewed by the district attorney’s office.”
Somerset County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Joseph Jackson responded and investigated the incident. He was assisted by the Canaan Fire Department and Clinton Rescue and EMS Ambulance.
Wishing both men a complete and speedy recovery!
What about the people in the house that was hit?
“The porch had extensive damage and the parked car had minor damage, but no one at the residence was injured, according to Gottardi.” I’m sure if anyone in the house was injured, jemileesmom would have wished them a speedy recovery too. How about wishing the porch a speedy re-build?
Hold your horses. You must be new to reading the forums.
If someone got hurt in the house, i am not too sure the poster would have wished a recovery. Posters in these forums like to stick up for the bag guys and they try to blame the innocent people for the crashes.
At 19 years old and 21 years old, how come they are not in bed at 1am on a Monday morning,sleeping for work in the morning, or getting ready to go looking for work in the morning? Bet they both are adult males that still live home with their mommie and or daddie supporting them….meanwhile Medicaid will pay their hospital bills.
Actually, I DID read the line Todd Foster quoted, stating that no one at the residence was injured. HAD there been injuries to the people in the house, I would have wished THEM a speedy and complete recovery as well.
Don’t be too quick to ASSume what I would have done or not. You don’t know me, and quite frankly, I think I’d like to keep it that way.
You have no idea why these men weren’t home at 1 am. What if they had gotten out of work at 11, and were headed home after making a couple of stops first? What if they had gone out of town for the weekend, and were just getting home? What if they had spent the evening at a friend’s house, lost track of time, and were just heading home?
My job starts at 2 am, 6 days a week. I’m out, and driving for 5 hours while working. Since I’m not home, and tucked into bed sleeping, does that make me some sort of hoodlum? No, it makes me a single mother, who is doing whatever it takes to keep a roof over my child’s head. Just because it’s not a standard 9-5, does not make me any less of a person.
And yes, I saw that the article says alcohol MAY be a factor. Until it comes out that it in fact is the reason behind the crash, don’t ASSume they’d been out drinking all night either. ASSuming gets you nowhere.
They could have killed someone coming the other way, or like a speeding driver Jackman three years., smashed into a house and kill an occupant
I could care a frogs fat arse about their health. I am happy someone innocent did not get hurt or killed
That’s the problem with the world today. Lack of empathy. I’ll bet you think the victims of the homicide in Bangor a couple of weeks ago deserved it, huh? People make mistakes, and HOPEFULLY they learn from them, especially after an incident like this. Can you sit there and tell me, HONESTLY, that you have NEVER made a stupid decision that could have put someone else in danger? I’m gonna guess no, because you are HUMAN and humans aren’t perfect.
The problem in this state is the non stop stories of adult teenagers and 20 year old-somethings crashing their vehicles into other vehicles while speeding and/or drugged up, often hurting or killing innocent people, and then the adult teenagers/20 year old-somethings LOSERS are turned into folk heroes
That was NEVER the case here! I wished two individuals who were involved in a vehicle crash a complete and speedy recovery, and YOU took it WAY out of control! I never said they were heroes, never said they were losers, NOTHING. I just wished good health upon two people who are injured.
check out his fb page.
https://www.facebook.com/timothy.j.williams.75
I read it! The facebook was since …removed. Problem is, there is software to find out what a facebook said before it was removed. This is not such thing as ‘delete’ in Facebook.
Speed, alcohol and youth – the perfect storm. T’was ever thus – remember, folks?
If there were only a way for us survivors of that combination to convince ’em it ain’t worth it, huh?
Don’t worry, they will be back on a road near you in no time.
“neither driver was wearing a seat belt”
neither driver?
Sure! Din’t you and a buddy ever play the drunkin’ game of ‘you steer and I’ll run the pedals’?
Neither did I…..
Even when yer in yer cups, remember to wear your seatbelt!
Wow… Thankfully I was not home last night. I had to come home to see the damage done. Glad the boys are okay. The porch can be fix, someone’s life and health come before that. Also glad to know the kitties weren’t sleeping on the porch like they normally do. I’m sad to say accidents happen here more then they should, but this is the worst one so far. People are always speeding around that corner. I have sat on that porch and watched a truck with wood shavings in the back flip over right there. No one in the house was hurt. The house will recover and i’m the boys will too.