LAPLACE, LA – A 20-year-old woman from Reserve died when her car collided with a train in St. John the Baptist Parish on Saturday afternoon, WDSU 6 reports. Police say the collision happened around 1 p.m. at the intersection of Spruce Street and Captain G Bourgeois Street. They say the driver of a 2014 Ford […]
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BATON ROUGE, LA – A tractor-trailer collided with a pedestrian on the interstate just north of the Blue Bayou Waterpark in Baton Rouge Saturday. WAFB9 reports that the crash happened before 9:30 a.m. in a westbound lane of I-10 at Highland Road. The accident closed the two right lanes of I-10 West as well as
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PRAIRIEVILLE, LA – A 48-year-old biker died, and his passenger was hurt when their motorcycle crashed on State Road 42 in north Ascension Parish Saturday morning, WBRZ reports. Police say the motorcycle collided with a curb around 3 a.m. as the vehicle approached a traffic circle at the junction of State Road 42 and State
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BOSSIER CITY, LA – One person died, and another was hospitalized when two pickup trucks collided on I-20 in Bossier City on Saturday morning, KTBS 3 reports. Police say the crash happened just after midnight east of I-220 when a pickup truck travelling west on the eastbound side of I-20 crashed into another pickup truck.
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JENNINGS, LA – A 73-year-old bicyclist died in a hit-and-run collision with an SUV on State Highway 1126 in Jennings on Monday morning. KLFY 10 reports that the accident happened around 8:30 a.m. near the intersection with Farm Supply Road. Police say the bicyclist was travelling east on State Highway 1126 when a white SUV
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NEW ORLEANS, LA – A streetcar collided with a sedan in downtown New Orleans on Friday. WGNO reports that eyewitnesses saw the streetcar push the car approximately 20 feet away. Police say the accident occurred near the intersection of Claiborne Avenue and Canal Street. They have not commented on how the crash happened but did
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GEISMAR, LA- A 36-year-old man died when his car collided head-on with an 18-wheeler in Ascension Parish on Wednesday night. WAFB 9 reports that the crash occurred just after 10:30 p.m. on LA 30 near Copperhead Road. Police say the victim’s 2020 Chevrolet Impala veered out of the westbound lane of LA 30 and crashed
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DEQUINCY, LA – One man died when a FedEx truck collided with a pickup truck on Highway 12 in Beauregard Parish on Wednesday, KPLC reports. The accident happened near the intersection with Pierce Road around 5 p.m. Police say that a westbound 2021 Chevrolet Express FedEx truck sideswiped an eastbound 2006 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck
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HAMMOND, LA – A 35-year-old woman died after her car collided with a tractor-trailer on I-12 in Tangipahoa Parish on Tuesday morning, The Advocate Reports. State police say the accident happened around 8 a.m. when a westbound 2004 Nissan Pathfinder crashed into the rear of a 2010 Peterbilt tractor-trailer. The collision occurred near the weigh
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BELLE CHASSE, LA – A deputy for the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office was seriously injured when an ATV struck him in Belle Chasse on Tuesday, WDSU 6 reports. The Sheriff’s Office said that multiple deputies were sent to handle reports of several four-wheeler vehicles driving recklessly on the Woodland Highway near the Woodland Bridge. One
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