Truck driver caused collision with train in Prospect, police say

Police say that a truck driver failed to yield to a southbound train in Prospect one week ago, causing the crash that took several hours to clean up.

Dallas York, 34, of Ellsworth was using a 2024 Peterbilt tractor trailer to haul a low-bed style trailer westbound along the Muskrat Farm Road when the crash happened on train tracks just east of the intersection with Route 1A, also known as Bangor Road, according to Lt. Cody Laite of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office.

York, who works for Hopkins Paving LLC in Hermon, did not have anything in the trailer, and the truck was disabled by the damage it took to its passenger side, Laite said.

York was taken to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with unspecified injuries, although a firefighter said on the day of the crash that he was upright and verbal when he was found. State officials also had to clean up diesel fuel that leaked from the damaged vehicle.

The Canadian Pacific train was heading southbound during the crash. It was not damaged, and the two passengers aboard were not injured. Authorities have not said what it was hauling.

Hopkins Paving and Canadian Pacific could not be reached for comment.