CHARLESTON ( AP) — Maine State Police have released the name of a 20- year-old woman killed after her car crossed the center line and collided head- on with a logging truck in Charleston.
The crash took place Monday morning on Main Road in the Penobscot County town. State police sat the victim, Samantha Snyder of Charleston, was killed instantly.
The loaded logging truck was operated by 32-year-old Wyatt Astbury of Orland, who was not injured.
Troopers say Snyder lost control of her car on the snow- covered road and it skidded sideways into the path of the truck. The collision caused the truck to overturn into a ditch, partially spilling its load of logs.
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