Trucker will not be charged in Farmington fatality

FARMINGTON — No criminal charges will be filed against a Maine truck driver in connection with a crash that killed a 12-year-old Connecticut girl.

Franklin County prosecutor James Andrews told the Morning Sentinel his office reviewed the police investigation of the Aug. 17 crash in Farmington and determined there was not enough evidence to bring a vehicular manslaughter charge against Charles Willey.

Andrews said the probe concluded that Willey was driving his tractor-trailer about 11 mph over the speed limit when he lost control of the rig and struck a YMCA minivan. But the prosecutor said there was no finding of criminal negligence as required by the law.

The crash killed Tess Meisel of Westport, Conn. She was in the van owned by Camp Jewell YMCA of Colebrook, Conn., which was returning from Acadia National Park.

: A 12-year-old girl from Connecticut died when the mini-van she was riding in on Routes 2 and 27 in Farmington was struck by a tractor-trailer truck driven by Charles Willey, 53, of Dexter. The van, owned by a YMCA camp in Colebrook, Conn., was traveling from Acadia National Park to a park in Vermont.