CARRABASSETT VALLEY – The state Medical Examiner’s Office has released the cause of death for Abigail Holman, 45, of Fayette, who was killed in a skiing accident at Sugarloaf/USA last Saturday.

Holman died from a blunt impact injury to the chest, a representative from the office said Friday.

After completing an alpine race on Lower Competition Hill, Holman was attempting to ski around the fencing that rings the “finish corral” at the bottom of the course. She then veered off the course and into a nearby stand of trees.

“I don’t know exactly how fast she was going at the time of the collision, but I don’t think she was at race speed,” Bill Swain, communications manager for Sugarloaf, said Friday.

Swain did not know if any other factors contributed to Holman skiing off the course, such as an attempt to avoid another skier. A member of the ski patrol was at the race and reached Holman moments after the accident.

Holman served as a selectman for Fayette and represented House District 83 – the towns of Belgrade, Fayette, Manchester, Mount Vernon, and Vienna – in the Legislature in Augusta. She was serving her first term in that office. She also worked as a lawyer for the firm of Lipman, Katz and McKee in Augusta.

Her funeral was held Thursday at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Augusta.