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Highway 190 West was a rocky road late Wednesday morning after a load of rock was accidentally spilled onto the highway. It happened shortly before 11:00 just west of the Texas Department of Transportation Office. A Jasper County deputy said that 34-year-old Justin DuPree was driving a Freightliner truck pulling a bottom-dump trailer loaded with rock to the Jack Alexander well site. The deputy said the trailer had a manual method for dumping its load, and apparently a bump on the highway triggered the lever to open the bottom which resulted in all of the rock being dumped onto the roadway. A private contractor quickly cleaned up the spilled rock and the highway was soon reopened for normal traffic flow.