An Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department worker died Monday afternoon while patching asphalt on a state highway, the agency says.
According to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, agency spokesman Danny Straessle says 43-year-old James Kirk Watts of Marshall died after the road roller he was driving traveled off a Searcy County road and overturned.
According to Straessle, Watts was pronounced dead at the scene around noon. He had worked with the agency for 13 years.
Watts’ death was one of at least 99 recorded so far this year on an Arkansas road, according to preliminary state police data.
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