HARPSWELL, Maine — A Harpswell man died Thursday night after his dirt bike crashed into a house on Harpswell Neck Road in South Harpswell.
Levi Alexander, 28, who worked at Bath Iron Works, was traveling south on a 2009 Kawasaki dirt bike when the dirt bike left the road and went airborne before hitting a house at 1942 Harpswell Neck Road just before 7 p.m., Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Scott Stewart said in a news release issued Friday morning.
Alexander, who was not wearing a helmet, died upon impact, the sheriff’s office and Harpswell Neck Fire Department officials determined.
The dirt bike was not registered for on-road use, Stewart said. A witness told deputies Alexander had been driving with his front wheel raised just prior to the crash, he said, and speed is believed to have been a factor in causing the crash.
The sheriff’s office’s accident reconstruction team continues to investigate the crash.
Alexander’s death was one of four Maine motor vehicle fatalities within a roughly 24-hour span from Thursday to Friday.