RUMFORD — An investigation continued Saturday into the death Friday night of a 40-year-old Canadian man involved in a motorcycle collision at McDonald’s restaurant on Route 2.
Francois Goyette of Stoke, Quebec, was pronounced dead at Rumford Hospital where he was taken by Med-Care Ambulance, Rumford police officer Brad Gallant said early Saturday evening.
Gallant said Goyette, who was heading home on a 2006 Harley-Davidson Road King, and Shane Child, 39, of Mexico, who was driving a 2005 Chevy Avalanche, were both traveling west when the accident occurred at about 8:39 p.m. in front of the restaurant’s entrance.
Gallant declined to say how the accident occurred, pending the results of a reconstruction by Oxford County Cpl. Justin Brown.
“How it happened is still under investigation,” Gallant said. “When the accident happened, the motorcycle left the road and (Goyette) stayed with it.”
As is standard in fatal accidents, the drivers involved are given blood tests to check for drunken or drugged driving. Gallant said multiple factors were involved, but it was still unknown whether alcohol was a factor.
Another man riding on another motorcycle with Goyette was not injured; neither was Child or his passengers, Candice Bradbury, 35, and Casey Child, 16, both of Mexico, Gallant said.
Route 2 was shut down for three hours while police investigated the accident. Mexico police officer Daniel Carrier and a volunteer firefighter directed traffic around the scene.
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