Avon,ME : Man dies in Avon crash on August, Sunday 20th 2017

A man from Strong died after his pickup truck struck a tree and caught fire on Mile Square Road on Sunday evening, Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, wrote in a news release.

The accident occurred just after 6 p.m.

State police "cited speed as the likely cause," McCausland wrote.

It was the fourth highway death of the weekend in Maine.

On Friday night, a man died when his pickup overturned in Lebanon, and a man was killed in Searsmont in a two-vehicle crash on Route 3, according to the release. On Saturday night, a motorcyclist died in a crash in Hollis.

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Man dies in Avon crash