FARMINGTON — Police have identified a 12-year-old girl from Connecticut as the person killed this morning in a crash between a tractor-trailer and a minivan along Route 2.
Killed was Tess Meisel, of Westport, Conn., who was sitting in the rear of the van, according to Maine State Police.
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Two other children sitting in the van, along with both drivers, were taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington with non-life threatening injuries, police said. The two children are 15-year-old Samantha Hollender and 13-year-old Samantha Gaivao, both from Connecticut, The van driver was identified as 23-year-old Charles Powell of Colebrook, Conn.
The van is owned by a Y camp in Colebrook and was traveling from Acadia National Park to a park in Vermont, police said.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was identified as Charles Willey, 53, of Dexter. The truck, owned by Linkletter Trucking of Athens, was loaded with sawdust.
The accident, which happened at about 9:20 a.m., closed down the intersection of Main Street and Farmington Falls Road.
The tractor-trailer had tipped over onto its side on Farmington Falls Road, which is also Routes 2 and 27, spilling sawdust onto the nearby grass. Emergency responders used heavy equipment to extract one person from the tractor-trailer.
State troopers and Farmington Police are investigating the crash.
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