A recent Windham graduate on her way to work was killed earlier this week when she was thrown from the vehicle she was driving.
The accident happened on Route 115 near the Brand Road intersection just after the woman – Mana Yazdanpanah, 18, of Running Brook Road in Windham – left for work at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Yazdanpanah was alone when she lost control of her 2001 DaeWoo sedan and skidded into some trees along the roadway. She was ejected from the vehicle, and police suspect she died on impact.
According to Windham Police Sergeant Peter Fulton, there were no witnesses to the crash. He said a motorist driving by at 4:50 a.m. noticed a single running light in the trees, stopped and saw debris in the woods. The motorist then called E-911 on a cell phone.
Yazdanpanah worked as a waitress at her family’s restaurant in Biddeford, known as The Dry Dock. According to her sister-in-law, Nejin Ahadzadeh, Yazdanpanah emigrated from Iran to the United States with her family when she was 10. She graduated from Windham High School in June.
Ahadzadeh said the family is also dealing with another hardship with Yazdanpanah’s father suffering a heart attack last week. He is still in the hospital.
Westbrook Police are performing a reconstruction of the single-vehicle accident.
“We have no idea at this time what caused her to go off the road,” Fulton said.
Windham fire/rescue personnel winch a vehicle involved in a Route 115 fatal crash onto a tow truck at 7:30 Tuesday morning. Windham resident, Mana Yazdanpanah, was killed when she was ejected from the car.Send questions/comments to the editors.
