Moose continue to be Maine’s most dangerous animal, the Maine Department of Public Safety reported Friday.
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with the giant animals during 2007 resulted in five deaths on Maine
roads, according to statistics from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety.
deadly crashes were in Crawford, Pittsfield, Howland, where two people
died, and near Medway. Passenger vehicles were involved in all of the
crashes except in Pittsfield, where a motorcycle was involved.
also had five deaths from moose collisions in 1998, the department
said. Other bad years for moose collisions were 1992, 2001, 2003 and
2004; four people died in each of those years.