A woman who had been reported missing was killed in a car crash on the Maine Turnpike early Wednesday morning, according to state police.
Jean Robinson, 78, of Gorham, who suffered from cognitive impairment, was last heard from around 9 a.m. Tuesday. She was supposed to drive to Southwest Harbor but never arrived. Police checked her home but she was not there, and a Silver Alert was issued by state police around 9:30 p.m.
Maine State Police said in an update around 7 a.m. Wednesday that Robinson had died overnight in a crash on Interstate 95 south in Lewiston.
State police said they responded to a report of a crash involving a car and a tractor-trailer around 2:35 a.m. Wednesday. They said Robinson was driving a Subaru Outback and was pulled over just before the southbound exit ramp. A tractor-trailer driven by 63-year-old David Alicea, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was driving south and saw the car pulled over in the breakdown lane.
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Preliminary investigation shows that the car then turned left into the travel lane, causing the tractor-trailer to hit it broadside. Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene.
Alicea was not injured in the crash.
The crash remains under investigation by state police.
