The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office was continuing to investigate a hit-and-run crash Friday in St. Albans that left a 55-year-old man seriously injured, along with a rollover crash that happened in the same location while deputies were there.
Deputies responded to the crash around 7 p.m. and found that Terrance Lary had been struck by a vehicle heading toward the center of St. Albans on Palmyra Road, Chief Deputy Mike Mitchell said Tuesday.
Mitchell said Lary was using a power broom to clean debris near his lawn outside his home near the intersection of Palmyra Road and High Street.
Lary had significant injuries and was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, said Mitchell, who believed that as of Tuesday afternoon Lary had either just been released or was soon to be released from the hospital.
The driver of the vehicle that struck Lary had left the crash scene when deputies arrived, Mitchell said. The parents of a 16-year-old boy contacted the sheriff’s office over the weekend after determining the teenager was involved. Mitchell said the vehicle that struck Lary was a Buick Encore SUV.
The crash is being reconstructed, Mitchell said, and the case will be sent to the Somerset County district attorney’s office to review possible charges. Authorities did not release the teenager’s name as he is a minor, and proceedings in juvenile criminal cases are generally confidential in Maine.
Investigators are trying to determine how fast the teenager was driving, Mitchell said. The area is a 25 mph zone and there is a hill nearby.
Mitchell said that while deputies were investigating the crash that injured Lary, a Honda Civic came down the hill and rolled over onto Lary’s lawn.
Neither the driver nor his two passengers were injured in that crash, he said. Deputies charged the driver, a Sangerville man, with driving to endanger and unlawful possession of a scheduled drug. Mitchell did not have the man’s age immediately available but said he is in his 40s.
This story was originally published by the Maine Trust for Local News. Jake Freudberg can be reached at [email protected].
