Waterville Fire Chief Dave LaFountain looks up at a utility pole behind City Hall, where the fiber option cable connects to the public safety communications tower on the roof. City officials have worried an accident at the site could cut the fiber optic cable to the tower. A new tower has been built at the Police Department several blocks away but is awaiting license approval. Friday’s accident at the site didn’t affect the cable.
City Code Enforcent Officer Garth Collins says his Toyota sedan, behind him, probably sustained enough damage after being hit by a pickup truck that careened off Front Street Friday morning that it is totalled.
City Manager Mike Roy, center, talks to former city councilor Ed Lachowicz, right, after an accident on Front Street Friday morning. Roy’s pickup truck, right, was parked in the City Hall Front Street parking area, and was hit hard enough by the pickup truck at the left that it was knocked out of its parking space onto the grass.
Police officers stand with the driver of the pickup truck, left, that sideswiped a utility pole and hit two vehicles in the City Hall Front Street parking area before crashing head-on into a second utility pole Friday morning. The woman, whose name was not immediately available, was later taken away from the scene in handcuffs.
Waterville city IT tech C.J. Parker, green shirt, discusses the accident on Front Street Friday morning that damaged two vehicles in the City Hall parking area. The blue pickup truck at left careened off Front Street, sideswiping a utility pole and hitting a car and pickup truck (at right) before smashing headon into another utility pole. The pickup truck at right, belonging to City Manager Mike Roy, was knocked out of its parking space onto the crash by the collision.
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