LEWISTON — A man was killed Monday night in a one-car crash on the Maine Turnpike, according to Maine Department of Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland.
Maine State Police say the man who died in a crash on the Maine Turnpike in Lewiston Monday night is Joshua Lussier, 31, of Lewiston.
Lussier was driving around 9 p.m. in the northbound lane near the Old Lewiston Road overpass when his car struck the guardrail in the median at a high rate of speed.
He was not wearing his seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene of the crash, McCausland said.
Traffic was rerouted off the turnpike at exit 80, according to McCausland.
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