Maine State Police investigating fatal crash on I-95 in Gray

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Maine State Police are investigating a car crash that killed one passenger and injured two drivers and an additional passenger Friday night on I-95 in Gray.

Police say 31-year old Megan Stuart, of Auburn, was traveling northbound in a 2010 Honda Fit near mile market 60 at around 11:47 p.m. on Friday when she swerved to avoid a deer, striking a guardrail and spinning into oncoming traffic. The vehicle crashed head on into a 2016 Chevy Malibu traveling northbound.

Stuart’s passenger, 38-year-old Soda Mao, of Auburn, was killed in the collision. Stuart was transported to Maine Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, and the driver and passenger of the Chevy Malibu suffered minor injuries.

The Falmouth Fire Department and Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene. Authorities shut part of the Maine Turnpike down for approximately 20 minutes to clear the scene and closed lane 1 for two hours.

The crash remains under investigation, according to Maine State Police.

Madeleine is a community reporter for Gorham, Buxton and Standish. She started her journalism career in Vermont, where she reported for Seven Days and served as the editor-in-chief of Middlebury College's… More by Madeleine Kaptein

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