Road worker struck, killed on rural highway by 18-year-old driving semitruck

NEWLAND, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – An 18-year-old semitruck driver struck and killed a road worker on a highway in Missouri on Tuesday, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The crash happened around 11:15 a.m. on MO State Highway O, a two-lane road with no shoulder in rural Pettis County.

Highway patrol said the 18-year-old was driving a semitruck when he hit 60-year-old Jay Bone, a Missouri Department of Transportation worker.

Bone was declared dead at the scene.

On Wednesday, the Missouri Department of Transportation Kansas City announced that Bone was a senior maintenance worker in the line of duty when he was hit.

Officials asked the community to keep “the Bone family, friends and coworkers in your thoughts.”

In Missouri, 18-year-olds can get a commercial driver’s license to be a semitruck driver. They must be 21 to cross state lines.

The crash is under investigation by highway patrol.

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