MSP Trooper Injured in Biddeford Crash

On Saturday, July 20, 2024, at approximately 7:33 PM, Maine State Police Trooper Patrick Flanagan was on a traffic stop with his emergency lights activated at mile marker 32 southbound on the Turnpike in Biddeford when his cruiser was rear-ended by another vehicle. The force of the crash caused Trooper Flanagan’s cruiser to spin around and strike the vehicle he had pulled over on the traffic stop. The driver of that vehicle suffered minor injuries. Trooper Flanagan suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a Portland hospital. The driver of the vehicle that struck the cruiser is 25-year-old Xianying Yu of Allston, Massachusetts. She suffered minor injuries and was transported to a Biddeford hospital. She was summonsed for Failing to Keep Right. The circumstances that led up to the crash are under investigation. No other information is available at this time.

*We would like to remind Mainers that Maine law requires drivers to move over or slow down when approaching all stopped emergency, public service, or disabled vehicles on the side of the road.