The illegal alien who in April caused a fatal car crash on I-95 in April, leaving an Albion woman dead and her husband in critical condition, was speeding and attempted a passing maneuver in the median side breakdown lane, according to the Maine State Police crash report.

The multi-vehicle accident occurred at about 8:45 a.m. on Friday, April 26, near Exit 19 on I-95 in Wells. At the time of the crash, the weather was clear and the road surface was dry.

According to the Maine State Police crash report, finalized in late September, 23-year-old Oguzhan Cildir was driving a black Toyota Prius southbound on I-95, traveling at a speed exceeding the posted speed limit (70 mph).

“[Cildir] was traveling at a high rate of speed attempted a pass from the median side breakdown lane,” the report states.

It was during the passing maneuver that the Prius, operated by Cildir, struck a pickup truck operated by 53-year-old Gloria Cascio of Albion.

“[Cildir] struck [Cascio’s vehicle], redirecting both vehicles into the guardrail in the breakdown lane,” the report continues, stating that both the Prius and pickup truck were sent at different angles across three lanes of the highway, causing two other vehicles to become involved in the crash.

Gloria Cascio was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Her passenger and husband, Albion resident Vincent Cascio, 60, had to be flown by helicopter to Maine Medical Center with serious injuries.

The report indicates that Cildir, a resident of Brighton, Mass., was not the owner of the Prius, and that he had an active Class C Massachusetts commercial driver’s license.

Cildir had managed to obtain that drivers license despite having entered into the U.S. illegally just months earlier.

The owner of the vehicle, according to the report, was Mustafa Ali Efe, of Chelsea, Mass.

None of the operators of the other three vehicles involved in the crash had any contributing action to the crash, the report states.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security official told the Maine Wire in April that the Customs and Border Protection’s resident agent in Albion was contacted when Cildir was arrested at the scene of the accident because the arresting agency found that he “had immigration status from when he crossed on the Southwest border” in January 2024.

Following the finalization of the Maine State Police crash report, the Maine Wire again reached out to York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery to ask if her office plans to charge Cildir with a crime in relation to the fatal crash.