Wrong-Way Driver Charged with OUI after Two Head-On Collisions

A 30-year-old woman was arrested for OUI after driving the wrong-way on I-295 and colliding head-on with two vehicles.

Wrong-Way Driver Charged with OUI after Two Head-On Collisions

The Maine State Police said Marina Kinney from Waterville was traveling northbound on I-295 Thursday around 9:07 am when her minivan hit the median near Freeport. Kinney left the scene. Two minutes later, she stopped on the highway and went off the road in Brunswick.

Wrong-Way on I-295

Kinney left the scene in Brunswick before Troopers arrived. She “crossed over a median and started heading southbound in the northbound lane. Kinney then struck two different vehicles head-on,” said Shannon Moss, Public Information Officer, Maine Department of Public Safety.

Three People Injured in Two Head-on Crashes

Thirty-seven-year-old Travis Mullins of York was driving the first vehicle hit. He was injured and treated at the scene. Fifty-six-year-old Jose Menara of Woburn, Massachusetts was driving the second vehicle.

Both Kinney and Menara were taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland with non-life-threatening injuries. Moss said I-295 was hit down for about an hour and 45 minutes to clear the scene.

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Charges and Ongoing investigation

Police charged Kinney at the hospital with Operating Under the Influence. The investigation remains open.

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