Police investigate a car crash on Broadway in Bangor that seriously injured a pedestrian on Friday, Dec. 17. Credit: Sawyer Loftus / BDN

A Bangor man who was struck by a car  while he was crossing the street Friday night has died, according to Bangor police. 

The man, 74-year-old Gary Rich, was hit while walking on Broadway near the corner of Oak and York streets late Friday afternoon and taken to the hospital for serious injuries, according to Bangor police sergeant Wade Betters.  

Rich was struck by Cameron Pelletier, 27, of Addison who was driving a pickup truck, he said.

Broadway was blocked off between State and York streets as around a half dozen police officers investigated on Friday evening. 

Bangor police are continuing to investigate the incident, Betters said. 

Sawyer Loftus is an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News, a 2024-2025 fellow with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, and was Maine's 2023-2024 journalist of the year. Sawyer previously...

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