Driver crawls from window after car upends in Rockport crash

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 5:45pm

    ROCKPORT — A two-vehicle crash on Meadow Street in Rockport sent a sedan off the road and onto its side, forcing the driver to stand on the steering wheel and crawl out through the passenger window.

    The crash occurred at dusk Dec. 17, around 4 p.m., with Rockport Fire Department, Rockport police and North East Mobile Health Services responding.

    According to Rockport Police Officer Dana Smith, a UPS driver, Julie Weaver, 42, of Camden, was pulling out of a driveway and turning right on Meadow Street with the four-way flashing lights going on the U-Haul box truck she was driving.

    As she turned right onto Meadow Street, a Ford Fusion sedan, operated by Anthony Kirklian, 19, of Camden, attempted to pass her on the left, just at the moment that she putting her left-turn directional on to enter another driveway almost across the street from the driveway she had just exited, said Smith.

    As Kirklian cut the wheel to the left, the Ford collided with the front-end bumper of the U-Haul. The force of the impact flipped the sedan on its side onto a lawn.

    The airbag did not deploy, said Smith, and Kirklian was able to power down the passenger window of the car, stand on the steering wheel, and haul himself out the window.

    Smith attributed the crash to excessive speed in a 35 mph zone. There were no charges.

    North East Mobile Health Services transported Kirklian to Pen Bay Medical Center for neck pain.