LEWISTON — A Lisbon man charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident told police he thought he saw the operator of a motorcycle that collided with his truck “fly over the hood” and land in the roadway, according to a police affidavit.

Zachery Greene, 23, of 24 Spring St. appeared in 8th District Court on Wednesday to face charges stemming from Saturday night’s crash in Lisbon that killed 28-year-old Jeffrey Sickel of Brunswick.

Greene was arrested Monday and charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury or death, a felony. If convicted, he could be sentenced up to five years in prison. He also was charged with misdemeanor violation of condition of release.

Judge Charles Dow set bail at $2,000 cash, which Greene posted Wednesday and was released.

Defense attorney Leonard Sharon said Greene, who works on a paving crew, retained him as counsel.

Assistant District Attorney Andrew Matulis did not seek special conditions of Greene’s release.

Greene didn’t enter a plea Wednesday. Felony charges must eventually be brought by a grand jury in an indictment for the court to proceed to trial.

Greene told Lisbon police that he had been returning home from the McDonald’s restaurant on Lisbon Street around 10 p.m. Saturday when he turned left onto Memorial Street.

“As he made his turning maneuver, he heard something hit his truck,” according to Sgt. Harry Moore, who wrote a sworn statement in support of Greene’s arrest.

Greene told police he didn’t see anything, so he continued driving to his home about 300 yards away. He said he checked the front of his truck for damage and, seeing none, went to his room. He only noticed damage the next morning, he said.

He said he suspected the crash had been serious when he could see emergency vehicles at the scene from his bedroom window, Moore wrote.

Greene told police he hadn’t been drinking or taking drugs, but had a medical marijuana card and some pot in his truck and was “scared that police would think that he had been smoking,” according to the affidavit.

Greene said he had been following social media comments about the crash that reported Sickel had been returning from a wedding reception in Lewiston and had been operating recklessly. Greene told police he hadn’t seen the motorcycle approaching. He said he hadn’t known nor assessed Sickel’s physical condition at the time of the crash, Moore wrote.

Police told Greene that the crash remained under investigation. An accident reconstruction was undertaken at the scene by Maine State Police.

Moore wrote that it appeared efforts had been made to “cover the damage sustained in the collision with the motorcycle.” Greene said his father had painted the damaged area.

Greene had been free on conditions of release stemming from a charge of violation of a protection from abuse order.

A witness to the crash told police she had been walking toward a home on Lisbon Street when she heard a crash. She said she saw a white extended cab pickup truck speeding away from the scene up Memorial Street, then discovered Sickel.

According to Moore’s report, Greene had turned his truck left “in front of or into the eastbound motorcycle, which resulted in the collision.”

Two days after the crash, police got a subpoena for video surveillance records for the night of the crash from Five County Credit Union, whose branch was near the site of the crash. The video showed “what appeared to be a white crew cab pickup truck traveling west on Lisbon Street at the same time the Sickel motorcycle was traveling east on Lisbon Street. Crash debris was observed coming into camera view” from the west of the credit union’s building. Police found what appeared to be white paint transfer on the motorcycle’s muffler as well as white paint chips at the scene of the crash.

On Monday, Sickel’s family members decided to discontinue mechanical life support after conferring with medical staff at Central Maine Medical Center, Moore wrote. Sickel was pronounced dead a short time later.

“What we’re hoping that the investigation will show is that my client and his involvement in the accident did not show reckless behavior because that’s going to be ultimately the test for manslaughter, whether or not his behavior was so egregious to show a conscious disregard of a known risk rather than just negligence,” Sharon said.

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