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LAMOINE — An
Otis boy was badly injured on Lamoine Beach Road
early Saturday morning after the car he was a
passenger in went off the road and hit a tree,
Maine State Police say.
Matt Peasley,
17, was in serious condition at
Eastern Maine Medical
Center Wednesday morning.
The accident
occurred about 5:20 a.m. when Alex Wentworth,
18, of Ellsworth, driving a Toyota Avalon, lost
control of the car on a soft shoulder, said
State Police Trooper Jessica Shorey.
Wentworth
overcorrected and the car skidded off the road,
striking a large tree, Shorey said.
Neither boy was
wearing a seatbelt, said Shorey. Wentworth, an
Ellsworth
High School student, suffered minor scrapes and bruises. Peasley suffered a head
injury and a broken leg, she said.
A LifeFlight
helicopter landed at Lamoine
Beach to fly Peasley to
Eastern Maine Medical
Center. County
Ambulance and the Lamoine Fire Department responded as well.
Alcohol and
drugs were not factors in the accident, Shorey
said.
“It’s believed
that the primary cause for the accident is
speed,” said Shorey. The speed limit on Lamoine
Beach Road is 40 mph.
The boys had
been at Lamoine
Beach with a girl, who had been
following behind them in another vehicle when
the crash occurred, Shorey said.
State Police
Sgt. Jon Mahon said the Hancock County Sheriff’s
Department is reconstructing the accident. Once
the reconstruction is finished, the Hancock
County District Attorney will review it, Mahon
said.
The car, which
was a total loss, belongs to Daniel Briggs of
Bangor,
Mahon said.
The accident
comes a little more than a week after “Every 15
Minutes” at Ellsworth
High School, a two-day mock event with a staged fatal car accident in which alcohol
was a factor. The cautionary dramatization was
staged at
George
Stevens Academy in Blue Hill
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. |
