BANGOR, Maine — A minivan and SUV collided at the intersection of State and Otis streets on Saturday afternoon, and the impact was hard enough to roll the SUV over and trap the female driver inside.
Even so, “There was no serious PI [personal injury],” Officer Joe Baillargeon said from the scene.
The collision occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Orrington resident Mary Richards, 51, was driving the Subaru Forester SUV, Lt. Tom Reagan said Sunday. She was able to get out of her vehicle through the back with assistance from firefighters, an Affiliated Lab employee named Vanessa said.
She said she witnessed the collision and stopped to talk to the driver until rescue crews arrived.
“I was just talking to her and making sure overall she was OK,” the witness said. “I was trying to keep her calm.”
Ava Bubar, 76, was driving the minivan, Reagan said. She could be heard saying, “They thought they had the green light and I thought I had the green light” as she was getting personal items out of her Chrysler minivan.
Both of her vehicle’s air bags had deployed, the front bumper and right headlight were crushed and the windshield was smashed.
The collision is still under investigation, Reagan said.
“Can you believe she walked into that ambulance?” the lab employee said to Jason Drost of Ellsworth, who also saw the crash, just as the ambulance left the scene.
Holden Town Manager John Butts said he didn’t see the collision, but stopped anyway to make sure everyone was OK.
So does Vanessa have a last name? And what does her place of employment have to do with the story?
Is she the “witness” with no name?
What is going on with this fast-food journalism that is undercooked and not ready for consumption? Within the last week or so alone we have seen a story about gunshots fired outside of a home in Veazie that turned out to be not true and nothing newsworthy; a holy cow, the plane that normally carries the president is practicing in Bangor story that ended up being a big “Oops, wrong model” story.
Take a deep breath, Bangor Daily. In your haste to get something online before anyone else, you’re making too many careless mistakes.
Where do you see Vanessa in the story, or her employment. Please advise Miss correcter
That’ll be the third paragraph.
Mind you, the post you replied to betrays either a charming lack of understanding about how the viciously competitive 21st-century instant-turnaround news business works, or an equally charming idealistic notion that we live in the world where things work like they ought to and everyone’s got the time to craft deathless prose with loving care, but still – Vanessa of Affiliated Labs is clearly mentioned in graf 3, so, y’know. Try again. :)
Honestly who cares, the poster corrects everyone it is getting annoying, you want him or her correcting your comments, i bet not
Yeah, who cares if what we read is actually correct or thorough? It’s not as though this is a professional newspaper or anything.
Newspapers are supposed to be thorough and get things right BEFORE publishing a story. That’s the essence of good journalism.
The same goes for Channel 5’s weak story on immigrants being sworn in the other day as American citizens. Apparently none of those new citizens interviewed had a name.
I’m just enjoying the irony that, by way of protesting against someone’s snarky corrections, you went for the snarky correction and got it spectacularly wrong. There’s such a delightful symmetry there, it’s really made my midday. Small pleasures, I know, but then I live in Maine; there is no other kind here.
You must be commenter Ryanrobbins too, odd you posted both same time
Well, if you’ve got to roll a car over somewhere, that’s as good a place as any to do it…
“They thought they had the green light and I thought I had the green light”
You are supposed to know if you have a green light or not….if you can’t tell if your light was green…I question the driving abilities here.
Now days, EVERYBODY has a green light at intersections…
See a lot of that too.
Intersections have “lights”?
Yeah, they are all green at the same time apparently. I need to pay more attention to that the next time I go through an intersection with lights.
He may be referring to the fact they are technically signals.
If that is the case, then my answer is still the same, only called street lights. So yes they do, at least most.
BDN….that is a Chrysler/Dodge Town and Country Minivan-not a Chevrolet. And where is the windshield “smashed?” I see a crack in it….maybe check your facts. The great big Chrysler emblem across the front of the grill should be a BIG giveaway!!
In all seriousness, I am very concerned about this paper. Remember the millionaire’s helicopter that crashed off Little Deer Isle in 2009? Despite a Coast Guard photo that clearly showed a bent rotor and a smashed windshield, the reporter said there was no damage to the copter! Or the “topping off” ceremony at Cross Insurance Center, in which the reporter said the beam was the highest point on the structure, when anybody with one eye could see the beam was very much below the roof.
The goal is to get the headline out first, so the BDN can proclaim they were first to break the news, then go back, get the facts and rewrite…I mean correct some of the mistakes in the story. I actually cannot believe the BDN still exists. Some of us just need a good laugh I guess then go find accurate information from another source.
WOW in a hospital zone? i think the speed limit there is 25 mph? The number of drivers that run red light in Bangor is overwhelming, and to get where? Two hundred feet ahead of the car they just cut off.
Welcome to Bangor! Where them red and green lights are just Christmas decorations to some and a police department that can’t be bothered with traffic patrols during normal times of the day.
Yes, a hospital zone. I work near there. Dump trucks run their engine brakes and people fly through those intersections. Slow the [colorful metaphor!] down people!
Its also a “Hospital Quiet Zone” too…but that didn’t stop all those caring union nurses from tooting, yelling and blaring away on bullhorns while picketing a few years back.
I believe someone got hit in the hospital cross walk not too long ago?
What a nice cheap shot that has nothing to do with this. Get a life and grow the hell up!
Two more bad drivers live to crash again, a heartwarming story
Just one, I am sure one of them did NOT have a green light. If you got a green light, and you are going, that does not make you a bad driver.
I thought foresters were suppose to be good cars
Good advice from my son: When the light turns green for you, wait a few seconds to make sure some yahoo isn’t going to run the red and t-bone you! Bangor has the worst offenders!
I am sure it is the fault of the car. We should ban all cars so that there will be no further accidents in America. (sarcasm intended)