1 person killed in Piscataquis County snowmobile crash

By Wendy Watkins, Bangor Daily News Staff

A 53-year-old Massachusetts woman was killed in a snowmobile crash Friday afternoon, Feb. 28 in Piscataquis County.

At about 1:30 p.m., Stefanie Cappello of Southborough, Massachusetts, was traveling north on snowmobile trail ITS 85/86 with a group of other snowmobiles, heading towards Millinocket, according to Mark Latti, spokesperson for the Maine Warden Service.

Cappello, who was riding eighth in the line of nine snowmobiles, was unable to navigate a turn on the trail and her snowmobile struck a tree, 

Rescue crews drove to a road near the location of the initial 911 call, and then traveled about four miles by snowmobile to reach the crash site, according to a Facebook post by the Greenville fire department.

Cappello was declared dead at the scene. 

The initial investigation blamed operator inexperience as a factor in the crash, according to Latti.