WELLS – A Clinton man was killed when his pickup truck was crushed between two bigger trucks in a pileup that tied up a busy stretch of the Maine Turnpike for eight hours on Friday.

Dale Caverly, 27, was killed instantly when he was rear-ended by a Portland News Co. truck delivering bundles of USA Today. The pickup was plowed over and pushed into the bed of a delivery truck in front of it.

The driver of the Portland News truck, Laura Morse, 56, of Scarborough, was injured and taken to Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford.

The driver of the delivery truck in front of the pickup, Donald Dickinson, 44, of Thomaston, was being treated for injuries at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

It took nearly five hours to remove Caverly’s body after the accident at 2:15 a.m., emergency workers said.

The accident occurred in a northbound construction zone, where traffic had temporarily stopped while workers hoisted a beam into place at the Maguire Road overpass in Kennebunk, as part of the turnpike widening project.

The pickup truck and the vehicles in front of it were stopped when the accident occurred, police said.

A Portland woman, Latasha Carman, 23, had also stopped in the line of traffic, but saw Morse’s truck in her rearview mirror and did not think the vehicle could stop in time, police said. She quickly pulled her car into another lane, an action which probably saved her life, police said.

Dickinson’s delivery truck crashed into a tractor trailer truck, operated by Roy Landry, 56, of Fitchburg, Mass., and owned by J.P. Routhier and Sons of Littleton, Mass. Landry was not injured, police said.

Northbound turnpike traffic backed up for 10 miles behind the accident. Motorists were eventually rerouted onto Route 1, and the northbound lanes between Exit 2 and Exit 3 were closed.

Although it was unclear what caused the accident, rescue workers expressed frustration over drivers traveling too fast in the construction zone.

Three other accidents, none of them fatal, also occurred overnight in turnpike construction zones, a rescue worker said.