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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM

Road crew worker killed on I-30 west of New Boston

Road crew worker killed on I-30 west of New Boston

A road crew worker was killed on the interstate west of New Boston Thursday afternoon, officials said.

The accident happened about 1:30 p.m. Thursday near the 190-mile-marker of Interstate 30.

Braden Tucker, 21, of Lufkin, Texas, had been working on the guardrails in the center median of the interstate when he attempted to cross the eastbound lanes of traffic on a Kubota skid steer, said Sgt. Ethan Sartor, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman.

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