ORRINGTON, Maine — Traffic on Route 15 was restricted to one lane briefly Monday afternoon after a car carrying two women, including a driver who is pregnant with twins, rear-ended a pickup truck.
The driver, Kaitlyn Gravitt, no age available, and her passenger, Ashley Richards, 18, both of Bucksport, were transported to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy James Kennedy.
Gravitt and Richards were both wearing seat belts, according to Kennedy.
The driver of the 1998 GMC pickup, Leonel Ducas of River Road in Orrington, was heading south around 3:30 p.m. and slowing down after the Snow’s Corner Road intersection to prepare to turn onto a side road when the car slammed into the rear of the pickup, Kennedy said.
Ducas told emergency crews he would drive himself to the hospital.
Kennedy said it didn’t appear the car had slowed down before the impact, so he guessed the women may have had trouble seeing in the sun. He said he did not have a chance to interview the women.
Bangor Daily News photographer Kevin Bennett contributed to this report.
Isn’t his name Leonel?
No, that is his brother.
How fast was this car going??? Speed limit is 35 mph (should have been going slower if the sun was affecting visibility on a hill ) and that’s an awful lot of front end damage from rear ending a vehicle. People fly through here all the time , but- nothing is done about it. I keep saying it’s only a matter of time before a fatality occurs …this was close. Sherrif says people “average” 40-45 . Right(not).
That amount of damage could have happened with ease at 35 MPH when you consider she ran into the back of a pickup truck built in 1998.
now that they have improved route 15 on the orrington side. people are going to go even faster. now they have widened and paved.
Just a friendly reminder to all of you reading this:
You know nothing of the situation other than what has been posted in this article. And even then, not everything you read could be 100% accurate.
Compassion and prayer would be the appropriate response when finding out about a situation such as this.
Hoping they are all ok and recover quickly.
It is completely inappropriate for the information about the driver’s pregnancy to be released to the media. That is private medical information, and I’m quite surprised that this was headlined by BDN or released by the police department.
Not exactly if she’s visibly pregnant. That, unfortunately, is not something you can hide.
we came upon the accident soon after it happened….the sun was blinding ….there was a person directing traffic that was totally invisible from our view due to the sun blinding us….just by luck he/we were not victims too
we came upon the accident just after it happened…the sun was blinding…the person directing traffic was totally invisible from our view due to the sun… just by luck he/we avoided being victims