The scene of a crash Thursday afternoon near 190 Winthrop Center Road in Winthrop, in which police said a motorist fled the area after knocking over a utility pole. (Winthrop Police Department photo)
A driver allegedly left the scene after crashing a pickup truck near 190 Winthrop Center Road in Winthrop on Thursday afternoon.
The crash, which was reported around 3:15 p.m., caused a utility pole to snap and knocked out power in that section of Winthrop, according to Interim Police Chief Dan Cook. The road had to be closed as multiple Central Maine Power Co. units responded to the outage.
About 340 customers lost power in the outage, which lasted from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, according to CMP spokeswoman Gail Rice.
Police are still investigating who was driving the vehicle, a 2006 F-250 pickup truck that was destroyed in the crash.
After the accident was reported, a member of the Maine State Police brought a sniffing dog to assist with the search.
Officers located the registered owner of the truck. That person allegedly has a suspended driver’s license, but denied operating the truck when contacted by police, Cook said.
“We have a couple of leads,” Cook said. “As of right now, it’s still under investigation.”
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