A Massachusetts woman was killed after she crashed her vehicle into a disabled tractor-trailer on the Maine Turnpike on Monday afternoon.

Shortly after 3 p.m., Maine State Police said they responded to a report of a fatal crash on the Maine Turnpike southbound in York.

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Their preliminary investigation indicates that a 2022 Western Star tractor-trailer was stopped with a mechanical malfunction in the breakdown lane. The driver of the tractor-trailer had placed reflective warning triangles in the breakdown lane as required.

While the tractor-trailer was stopped, a Toyota sedan, driven by 81-year-old Janice Goldsmith of Needham, Massachusetts, struck the rear of the tractor-trailer. Goldsmith was pronounced dead at th

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