BANGOR, Maine — Two women were taken to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries they suffered Sunday night when they were struck by a van while crossing Hogan Road.
The names of the two women, believed to be Canadian, were not immediately available, Bangor Police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Sunday night. He said the two were struck by a van driven by an elderly man, whose name also was not available.
Edwards said both women were taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center and that an accident reconstruction specialist from the Orono Police Department has been called to the scene.
According to Edwards, the accident happened about 6 p.m. on the section of Hogan Road that includes the Olive Garden on one side and the Quality Inn on the opposite side.
Crossing Hogan Road? Really?
Twenty years ago my parents were shopping at K-Mart. I needed to get to Goldsmith’s to get a new hockey stick, so I walked across Hogan Road. Just like the chicken, I crossed it to get to the other damn side.
i crossed the street to go to Bull Moose in 2005 true story…
Were you struck and killed?
yeah i float down here
Twenty years ago there were a lot fewer cars on the road.
I work at a hotel in the area. People come here all the time on buses
(so, they obviously do not have vehicles with them). A lot of them
travel by taxi, or on foot. There is virtually nothing in the Hogan
Rd/Stillwater area in the way of sidewalks or crosswalks, but there is
more than enough foot traffic to warrant having them. The people of
Bangor pay enough in taxes. There should be a few crosswalks. Don’t be
ignorant with your comments. These people are not from here and don’t
know the area. They likely don’t expect to have to take a cab across the
street, because in any normal city, there would be crosswalks.
Not being from the area doesn’t make these people any less intelligent about the fact that it’s a terrible idea to cross a multi-lane road in the dark without an appropriate traffic signal.
looking at where they were hit, its possible that traffic was stopped along hogan road and the van might have been turning out of Longview drive and did not see them. I have no idea what really happened so none of this is fact, simply a possibility where no parties are at fault. I have to agree with Jen, there is a complete lack of crosswalks. If the city of Boston and Portland can have minimal traffic snars then so can we. Why does something bad have to happen for results to occur? As I shamefully reference the new crosswalk at the waterfront
Listing these victims as ” Canadians” could be construed
as racist.
At least according to some earlier posts regarding a high speed traffic accident.
I’m not sure where to draw the line.
I’ll have to leave that to the experts.
They are from Canada how that be misconstrued as racism???
Canadians (singular Canadian; French: Canadiens) are the people who are identified with the country of Canada, residential, legal, historical, cultural or ethnic.
Save your drama!!
It would be safe to assume the driver was a MAINEiac.
This is the story it is typing about.
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2012/11/10/news/mid-maine/speed-alcohol-likely-factors-in-fatal-waterville-crash/
Because the mans last name was Garcia someone made a comment that read “it was a Mexican” and that is all they typed but RHSC doesn’t think that is a racist comment and hence you now have it posting this non-sense.
Why is it safe to “assume” the driver is a Mainuh ??
Lots of out of state/province drivers everywhere.
Half the cars in Calais are non Mainuhs.
Eastport , in season , as well.
Drama ??? Huh?? Whaaaaat ??
Pfffffffftttt.
Admin, friendly advice : Dont go around “assuming” too much.
It might not work out to good for you.
Comprende’ ?
That user was being 100% racist but you refuse to acknowledge that fact. It even posted some nasty comment about the 3 children and father that died. Why you keep defending a racist I don’t understand.
I did not realize the ” mexican” , from Oakland, in the high speed
crash( Subaru WRX) that was referred to had kids or etc.
I missed those remarks, perhaps flagged before I read the article.
You were the person that initially said that stating the speeding
driver was ” mexican” was racist.
Something I did not understand.
Hence my question about Canadians.
I dont believe I am defending anyone.
I asked a simple question.
Apparently, you missed the point.
I f I will be defending anything, it will be to defend your right to be
wrong.
3 kids and a dead father??
Are you referring to the house fire??
Cause I am not.
Confusion abounds, eh Kevin ?
Get some sleep, amigo.
Sheeeeesh !!
When did “Canadian” become a race?
I was there shortly after and helped what little I could. May god bless these women and be with them. The one in the red coat was the more critical of the two and she can use all our prayers tonight. Still have my clothes soaking to remove her blood that stained them.
The Trauma team at EMMC is top notch and im sure they are doing all that is possible. She has a long road to recovery ahead of her. I pray for her family as well.
Not knowing the details of this, I wonder if the people crossing the road were wearing dark clothing. I’m always amazed at how often I encounter someone walking along a road – even where there are no sidewalks – wearing dark clothing. It’s even more amazing to note that they often don’t even bother to turn around and look at the cars coming up from behind them. How careless is that!
Surprised Life Flight wasn’t called…….. Got to keep that bird flying to make it pay…..