The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a fatality accident that occurred Monday night in Bowie County.

According to the DPS, troopers responded around 8:15PM to a crash on Interstate 30, approximately 13 miles west of New Boston.

The preliminary crash investigation indicates that a 2012 Dodge pickup was traveling eastbound in the right lane of the interstate.The pickup left the roadway and entered the eastbound side bar ditch, and struck an over pass support column of Farm-to-Market Road 44.

The driver, 66 year old Robert Daniel Meadows of Simms, Texas was pronounced dead at the  scene.

The investigation of this accident continues by the Texas DPS.

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