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Posted on 06/15/2002 7:55:54 PM PDT by Bowana
Boulders strewn about on Route 101 in Candia By JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
CANDIA — Police are looking for the culprits who dropped large boulders onto Route 101 early yesterday morning, creating potentially deadly obstacles for motorists.
No one was seriously hurt, but a Candia woman damaged her car when she struck one of the large rocks while traveling west on Route 101, Candia Police Chief Michael McGillen said.
Susan Spenard, 34, of 107 Kayla Drive, hit the rock shortly before Exit 3. She continued traveling for a short distance and eventually stopped at Exit 3 where she was found by Candia Officer Kevin Bowen around 2 a.m. yesterday.
Bowen was investigating a report of people throwing rocks onto Route 101 from ledge along the busy highway when he discovered Spenard’s car.
Bowen said in a police report the rock had apparently been placed in the travel lane. Spenard’s vehicle was badly damaged when the rock tore a hole in its undercarriage. Spenard told police the rock was so large that it caused her car to become airborne after she hit it.
As Auburn Officer Michael Bolduc was assisting with the accident, he discovered three large boulders placed in a straight line across both westbound travel lanes of Route 101.
Police also said motorists reported large rocks in Route 101’s eastbound lanes.
McGillen said the rocks created dangerous driving conditions and could have caused a fatal accident if a motorist had lost control of a vehicle.
“The potential was there for some serious injury. We have a lot of motorcyclists in the area for motorcycle week and they could have killed or seriously injured a motorcyclist,” McGillen said.
Candia police saw similar problems in the same area of Route 101 last summer, said McGillen, who recalled one time when a motorist struck a paint can hanging from the Patten Hill Road bridge.
Police have no suspects in yesterday’s rock incident. Anyone with information is asked to call New Hampshire State Police at 679-3333 or the Candia Police Department at 483-2318.
Sometimes when people hit rocks in the road at 2:00AM they may be temporarily blind. I don't think this article refers to U.S. Highway 101.
It's New Hampshire.
Just south of Manchester, NH, maybe 10 miles or so.
No, 101 is an east/west highway that starts out from Hampton Beach and goes through Manchester and then on to the western part of the state.
Just north of USIA
14-kg boulder killed bus driver — EDMONTON, Alberta -- Police have identified the 75-year-old bus driver killed early Saturday after a 14-kg rock [30.8 pounds] was thrown from an overpass onto his vehicle. Autopsy results yesterday showed Edmonton family man Robert Arthur Stanley died of blunt force trauma to the abdomen after the windshield of his school bus imploded on Whitemud Dr. about 12:30 a.m. "We believe the object that was dropped from the pedestrian bridge struck Mr. Stanley in the abdomen area and he died as a result of that injury," said homicide Det. Ernie Schreiber. "The item was a rock about the size of a basketball..."
Law enforcement went to a lot of effort in searching for the perpetrator but I don't recall that there was ever a conviction in the case. They had one good suspect, a local teenager who had been seen in the area at the time and who had a reputation for destructive behavior, but nothing to hold him on.
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