A Waterville woman is being charged with driving under the influence after police say she caused a multiple-vehicle crash on a highway in Brunswick Thursday morning.
Marina Kinney, 30, was allegedly driving a 2012 silver Toyota Sienna minivan northbound on Interstate 295 when she pulled over onto the median in Freeport shortly after 9 a.m., according to state police.
Dispatchers then received complaints that a minivan was stopping on the highway and then went off the road into the median near mile marker 28 in Brunswick at about 9:09 a.m., police said. The van left before state troopers arrived but was later found southbound at mile marker 20 in Freeport.
“The initial investigation indicates that Kinney after leaving the scene in Brunswick crossed over a median and started heading southbound in the northbound lane,” a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safey states. “Kinney then struck two different vehicles head-on.”
The first vehicle hit was a 2019 box van registered to CI Flooring of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, driven by Travis Mullins, 37, of York, police said.
Mullins was treated on scene for minor cuts.
The second vehicle hit was a 2013 Ford Transit van driven by Jose Menara, 56, of Woburn, Massachusetts, police said.
Menara and Kinney were transported to Maine Medical Center in Portland with non-life-threatening injuries.
Kinney was charged at the hospital with driving under the influence.
The highway was closed for about an hour and 45 minutes while the scene was cleared.
State police were assisted by Freeport police and Freeport Fire and EMS.
The investigation is ongoing.