DIXMONT, Maine — The two motorists who died in a Dixmont crash Wednesday afternoon have been identified as 34-year-old Andrew Clark of Belfast and 74-year-old Doreen Spinney of Dixmont.
A news release issued by the Penobscot County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday says police responded to the incident located on Western Avenue (Route 9) around 12:40 p.m.
Penobscot County Sheriff's Office investigators determined Clark was "traveling at a high rate of speed and making unsafe passes while traveling west in his sedan," according to an updated news release issued Friday.
During one of the passes Clark made at the "crest of a hill," his vehicle struck Spinney's oncoming sedan, Friday's release says.
Clark and Spinney were the sole occupants of their vehicles. They both died at the scene, according to Friday's release.
"Sheriff's Office detectives, along with our reconstruction and mapping teams continue to investigate further facts of the crash," Friday's release states. "This investigation remains active and no other details are excepted to be released until testing and crash analysis are completed."