Lincoln police escorted to Penobscot Valley Hospital a car carrying a reported chain saw accident victim after the vehicle refused to stop on Route 2 for a patrolman and an ambulance on Thursday.
A Penobscot Regional Communications Center dispatcher told police at about 10:05 a.m. that a vehicle was headed from Macwahoc through Mattawamkeag toward the hospital with a man who had chain saw cuts to his chest, neck and face, said Detective Mark Fucile, the department’s spokesman.
Yet the driver of the car blew past a Lincoln Fire Department ambulance that went to meet it on Route 2 at a high rate of speed, despite the pleas from a woman sitting in the back seat to slow down. This, Fucile said, left Officer John Walsh with a difficult choice: Force the vehicle to stop or clear the road in front of it, blue lights flashing, in an escort to the hospital?
Walsh chose the latter, but he and Fucile boxed in the vehicle, getting their cruisers in front of and behind it to force the driver to cut speed before completing the ride to the Lincoln hospital, Fucile said.
The name and extent of injuries suffered by the victim were not immediately available, although Fucile said they did not appear to be especially severe. The police investigation is continuing.
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