JACKMAN — Jessica Worster, the 21-year-old killed along with a friend in a Wednesday night crash, had attended Central Maine Community College in Auburn.
Friends of Worster remembered her as the calm, quiet type who was nonetheless a fierce competitor on the school softball team.
“She was always smiling,” said Kate Dargie, who coached Worster on the CMMC team. “She was willing to do whatever she had to do to help the team. She was quiet, but she was always there for her teammates. Pretty much nothing rattled her.”
Two young men were injured in the single-vehicle crash on a dirt road in northern Somerset County, police said.
Worster, who had lived in Jackman and Farmington, was traveling west on the Route 6 cutoff road, a dirt road that connects Routes 15/6 and 201, when she lost control of her 1999 Subaru station wagon, according to Chief Deputy Dale Lancaster of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office.
The accident occurred at about 8:20 p.m., Lancaster said.
“The vehicle left the road and rolled over several times,” he said.
Worster and one of her passengers, Brooke Giroux, 17, of Moose River, were pronounced dead at the scene. Anthony Currier, 18, of Jackman and Kyle Hoyt, 22, of Moose River, suffered injuries not considered life-threatening, the chief deputy said.
Lancaster said an on-duty border patrol agent witnessed the accident and contacted sheriff’s deputies. Cpl. Eugene Cole and Deputy Wilfred Dodge went to the scene quickly, Lancaster said.
None of the occupants in the car was wearing a seat belt; Worster and Giroux were ejected from the car.
“It’s a tragedy of epic proportion,” Lancaster said.
Hoyt was treated and released from a Jackman hospital while Currier was treated in Jackman before being taken to Eastern Maine Medical center in Bangor.
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