Augusta -
Maine's Bureau of Motor Vehicles has upheld a three-year license suspension for a truck driver involved in a crash that killed a 12-year-old girl from Connecticut.
Investigators said the trucker, Charles Willey of Dexter, was speeding last August in Farmington when his tractor-trailer carrying sawdust tipped and crushed part of a minivan carrying campers and counselors from Camp Jewell in Colebrook, Conn.
Twelve-year-old Tess Meisel, of Westport, Conn., was killed.
Willey appealed the three-year suspension of his driver's license, but a state hearing officer denied the appeal, saying Willey had been operating negligently and at an unreasonable rate of speed, directly resulting in the young girl's death.
The victim's mother, Suzanne Tanner, said she was relieved by the decision but still upset that Willey had even appealed his suspension.
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