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South Portland police to go ‘hands free’ on cell phones

The city’s police department has placed the crumpled wreckage of a cruiser at the busy corner where the Casco Bay Bridge meets Broadway to send a message to motorists: Don’t drive distracted.

The cruiser was wrecked, and an officer was injured, in a crash on the bridge on Nov. 1. Police say the driver who hit the parked cruiser with a pickup truck, David Zografos of South Portland, was talking on his cell phone.

Zografos, who was uninjured, was charged with failing to maintain control of a motor vehicle.