BANGOR, Maine — A Hudson woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Finson Road early on New Year’s Day, and the Bangor Police Department is investigating, Bangor police Deputy Chief Brad Johnston said in an email.
Elizabeth Horlieca, 37, died at the scene of the 2:30 a.m. crash after Shawn E. Macnevin, 42, of Hudson ran off the road and struck a tree head-on, Bangor police Sgt. Tim Cotton said in an email.
Macnevin, who was driving a 2000 Jeep toward Broadway, was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center with serious but not life-threatening injuries, the sergeant said. No information about his condition was available Thursday afternoon, a spokesman for the hospital said.
“As with all fatal accidents in the state of Maine, the driver was subject to blood alcohol testing,” Cotton said. “The result of that test is currently unavailable.”
Macnevin, who is a race car driver at Speedway 95, has three prior drunken driving convictions on his record, all from the late 1990s, according to Bangor Daily News archives.
Officer Jose Vidaurri was the first to arrive at the deadly crash, which occurred about half a mile north of the Davis Road intersection, and he was followed by a Bangor Fire Department crew.
Bangor police set up a roadblock near Peter Fleming’s Pump Service on Finson Road and placed a number of evidence markers on the side of the roadway heading toward Broadway.
Police could be seen Thursday morning taking measurements and collecting evidence and data from the scene for their report about the fatal crash.
Finson Road between Davis Road and Broadway was closed to traffic while the accident reconstruction team worked to finish their investigation.
“The investigation into the cause of this accident is continuing and no further information will be released today,” Cotton said.
Macnevin was sentenced for operating a motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor in September 1996 and ordered to a $500 fine, spend 48 hours in jail, and his driver’s license was suspended for 90 days, BDN archives state.
In April 1998, Macnevin was sentenced for another OUI and ordered to pay a $500 fine, spend 12 days in jail, and lose his driver’s license for 90 days. At the same time, he was sentenced for operating with a suspended or revoked driver’s license and ordered to spend two days in jail, concurrent with his drunken driving sentence, according to BDN archives.
In November 1998, Macnevin was sentenced again for operating a motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, and he was ordered to pay a $700 fine, spend 120 days in jail with all but 45 days suspended and given probation for one year. He also was ordered to seek alcohol treatment to the satisfaction of Probation and Parole, and his driver’s license was suspended for 90 days. At the same time, he was sentenced for another operating a motor vehicle after suspension and was ordered to pay a $500 fine, spend seven days in jail to be served concurrent with the OUI sentence, and his license to drive was suspended for one year, BDN archives state.