An Augusta woman has been arrested for an Interstate 95 crash that left two state road workers dead and a third injured.
Samantha Tupper, 34, was indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury Thursday on manslaughter, aggravated driving to endanger, endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated assault charges, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
She was arrested without incident at 6:30 a.m. Friday at a Mayflower Road home in Augusta, Moss said.
Tupper was driving a gray Kia minivan south on I-95, near mile marker 127 in Waterville, about 9:37 a.m. on Jan. 13 when she came up to a construction zone.
The Maine Department of Transportation had closed the southbound travel lane beginning at the Kennedy Memorial Drive on-ramp for bridge construction work. The area was posted with cones and a stop sign.
Tupper allegedly didn’t stop at the posted sign at the end of the Kennedy Memorial Drive onramp and then attempted to enter the passing lane, where she was hit by a tractor-trailer, Moss said Friday morning.
That sent her minivan careening into the work zone, where she hit three state road workers, sending two of them — 60-year-old James Brown and 51-year-old Dwayne Campbell, both of Waterville — over the bridge and down onto Kennedy Memorial Drive.
Brown and Campbell died at the scene.
The third worker was taken to the hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.
Tupper also was taken to the hospital. She had two children in the Kia with her, neither of whom was injured.
The tractor-trailer’s driver wasn’t injured.
Tupper remains at the Kennebec County Jail in Augusta while awaiting her initial court appearance.