Driver in fatal crash had been party host
The 20-year-old Casco man who was driving his mother’s car when it crashed and two of his friends died had been hosting a party to celebrate his move to a new home.
Investigators with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office say alcohol and speed contributed to the crash just after 1 a.m. Sunday on a short stretch of Route 11 where nine people have died in the past decade.
The driver, Nicholas Sparrow, was partially ejected from the car but survived. He was in fair condition Monday at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
Thomas St. Saviour, 29, of Hiram was wearing a seat belt and stayed in the 1993 Infiniti. Michael Daye, 14, of Baldwin was thrown from the car. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Despite the age difference, Daye and his 17-year-old brother were longtime friends of Sparrow’s, authorities said.
Sparrow had just moved into a mobile home on Rosewood Road and had seven friends visit, several of whom were younger than 21, said Chief Deputy Kevin Joyce at a news conference Monday.
Sparrow, St. Saviour and Daye decided to drive to the Big Apple in Naples to buy more alcohol, but St. Saviour was turned down because it was after 1 a.m., Joyce said.
The three were going back up Route 11 when they passed a sheriff’s deputy at the American Legion Post parking lot in Naples. Deputy Andrew Feeney heard the Infiniti before he saw it, he said, because the car’s headlights were off…
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