BUCKSPORT — A 44-year-old local man died late Saturday after his snowmobile struck a tree near Silver Lake.

Carl Coleman is one of four Mainers killed in snowmobile crashes throughout the state this year, said Deborah Turcotte, spokeswoman for the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Warden Sgt. Patrick Devlin said Coleman and his brother were driving their snowmobiles across the lake at high speeds before Coleman reached the shore and crashed into the tree around 10:30 p.m.

“He was over driving his headlights,” Devlin said in a written statement issued late this morning. “The shore came up too fast and he hit a maple tree.”

Coleman was pronounced dead at the crash scene.

The Warden Service is still investigating the accident, and Turcotte would not release an estimate of how fast the sleds were traveling as they moved across the lake or say whether investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.

Coleman was the second snowmobiler to die in crashes last week. On Tuesday, a Kennebunk man died after hitting a ditch and being thrown from his snowmobile in Dayton.