Police confirmed Tuesday that the second toddler who was injured in a critical pedestrian crash final week in central Maine has died.
Maine State Police stated they responded to a motorcar versus pedestrian crash shortly after 5 p.m. Friday within the space of 60 Hussey Hill Highway in Albion. A mom and her twin 3-year-old sons have been struck by a automobile, which then fled the scene.
One of many kids who was struck died on the scene, police stated, and the opposite was taken to a hospital by medical helicopter and later died, police stated in an replace launched Tuesday. The mom of the twins, 33-year-old Mollie Egold, of Albion, was taken to the hospital by medical helicopter with critical accidents and stays hospitalized in crucial however steady situation.
“Right now, no further particulars are being launched,” state police stated of their assertion Tuesday. “The Maine State Police lengthen our ideas to the household and all these affected.”
Troopers have been ultimately in a position to establish and find the automobile and the driving force concerned within the crash.
The automobile was a white Hyundai Veloster, and the driving force was 44-year-old Benjamin Lancaster, of Albion. He was taken into custody and transported to the Kennebec County Jail.
He faces a number of fees, together with working underneath the affect inflicting loss of life, two counts of working underneath the affect inflicting critical bodily harm, leaving the scene of an accident inflicting loss of life and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident inflicting critical bodily harm. His bail was set at $100,000 money following his preliminary court docket look.
The crash stays underneath investigation by state police, who stated they’re in search of any surveillance video footage from the world of Hussey Highway or Important Avenue in Albion between 5-5:15 p.m. on Friday involving a white automobile matching the outline of Lancaster’s Hyundai Veloster. Anybody with related footage or data is requested to name Sgt. Garret Sales space at 207-624-7076.