Two-car crash in Wiscasset sends two to hospital

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 4:00pm

A passenger in each car was hurt when two cars collided in front of the Sea Basket on Route 1 in Wiscasset Wednesday afternoon.

The crash shut down both northbound and southbound Route 1 from about 3 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Sept. 10, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said at the scene. He left the scene after Blagden’s Wrecker Service of Wiscasset towed the last of the two cars involved, shortly before 4 p.m.

A Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy, crews from the Wiscasset Fire Department and Wiscasset Ambulance Service, and a Maine Marine Patrol officer who was in the area at the time all responded to the accident.

The crash happened when David Woodroof, 63, of Hamburg, Pennsylvania, driving a 2011 silver Toyota RAV4, tried to turn left out of the Sea Basket parking lot, to go north on Route 1, Cline said. The car’s front end collided with a southbound, 2000 Subaru Forester, driven by Larry Burridge, 67, of Westbrook, Connecticut, the chief said.

Neither driver was hurt; Linda Arnold, 64, of Hamburg, Pennsylvania, a passenger in the Toyota, had a possible rib injury, which Cline did not believe to be life-threatening. She was taken to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. Maureen Cianci ,65, of Westbrook, Connecticut, a passenger in the Forester, was also taken to Mid Coast Hospital, with a head cut also believed to be non-life-threatening.