An Orono woman suffered what police called injuries that were not life-threatening when a tractor-trailer truck hit her Friday morning on Interstate 95 in Oakland.
Marilyn Whitford, 67, was struck while walking about 11:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95 in Oakland a short distance before exit 127.
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Whitford had pulled her van over to the breakdown lane to retrieve water from the back of her van when a tractor-trailer hit her, Maine State Police Trooper Diane Vance said.
A police spokesman said the trailer portion of the truck “made contact” with the woman as the driver tried to avoid the woman.
“The woman’s actions were deliberate and the truck driver did nothing wrong,” Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said via email.
The truck is owned by Associated Grocers of Maine and was driven by Martin Thurston, 42, of Fairfield, who swerved to avoid Whitford but hit her, police said.
Whitford was taken to a local hospital and airlifted by LifeFlight helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
Neither speed nor substances are suspected to be a factor. The southbound travel lane was closed for about 30 minutes, but traffic continued to flow in the passing lane.
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