TOPSHAM, Maine — A Topsham woman was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland early this afternoon after a two-vehicle crash at the Meadow Road and Meadow Cross Road intersection.
The crash was reported at 12:38 p.m. Sgt. Robert Ramsay of the Topsham Police Department said 80-year-old Harold McManus of Topsham was stopped at the stop sign at the intersection in a 2001 Dodge pickup truck. McManus didn’t see the 2000 GMC pickup truck driven by 37-year-old Shelley Brewster of Topsham, and entered the intersection, broad-siding the other pickup truck which was headed north on Meadow Road.
Brewster was transported to Maine Medical Center by Topsham Fire and Rescue. Her 12-year-old son, who was in the passenger seat at the time of the crash, was not injured.
McManus was not injured. Everyone had their seatbelts on.
Ramsay said no charges were filed as a result of the crash.
Topsham police also responded to four other crashes today — none that involved any injury — starting with a vehicle that slid off the road on Middlesex Road around 8 a.m. due to black ice.
There were two crashes near the Interstate 295 off-ramps onto Route 196 — one the northbound exit and one the southbound exit — each involving two vehicles. The fifth crash occurred on the Coastal Connector near Merrymeeting Bridge when the driver of a vehicle made an unsafe lane change and struck another vehicle.
OK moosepoops, since the other comments are closed, here’s another one for you! Should this particular 80 year old still be behind the wheel? I don’t know for sure, as I don’t know him. Before I’m attacked, I have no axe to grind with Mr. McManus, but this report in the BDN is used to illustrate a point.
Is this Mr. McManus’ first accident or incident behind the wheel in the last few years?
I think one of my biggest complaints concerning ‘elder drivers’ is that I am not seeing the cops cite these folks! If you “don’t see” someone, and then plow into them, then you were in the wrong, and should be cited! Never mind ‘being nice to the old fellow’, if he screwed up then ticket him! Maybe if some of the ‘Gramps’ that shouldn’t be driving, had a number of tickets behind their license, someone would see the trend and either pull their license or convince them to give it up (the preferred solution). Otherwise, they’ll just keep driving and driving until they kill someone in your family or mine.
“Ramsay said no charges were filed as a result of the crash.”
Why not? Is it now ok to go around ignoring the right of way and smashing into other drivers’ vehicles?