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Lake Charles police identified 83-year-old Zenna Fontenot Dewitt as the pedestrian killed outside the Dollar General at Country Club and Weaver roads on February 4, 2026. According to KPLC’s follow-up report, a 2017 Chevrolet Trailblazer left Country Club Road, entered the parking lot, and struck Dewitt while she was walking toward her car. Police…
A four-vehicle crash on Louisiana Highway 14 near Fairview Elementary School killed 34-year-old Kaylee Luce of Lake Charles and injured seven other people on February 3, 2026, according to reporting that attributes the details to the Lake Charles Police Department. Police said a Ford F-150 rear-ended a stopped Kia van carrying seven people at…
A person was killed late February 5, 2026, after a sequence of collisions on Interstate 10 West near the Little Woods exit in New Orleans. The New Orleans Police Department says the person first struck an unknown object while driving west, left the vehicle for an unknown reason, and walked along the interstate. A…
A January 29, 2026 crash at the North Hoover Road and Sisters Road traffic circle killed 30-year-old Maricia Casnave of Lacombe and injured four other people, according to the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office. The agency’s current release says the Toyota Camry left the roundabout, entered a business yard, and struck a tree. The same…
Louisiana State Police reported that 28-year-old Craig Burns of Carville died after a Toyota Corolla pulled from a private road into the path of his motorcycle on LA 30 in Ascension Parish. The February 6, 2026 crash remained under investigation when State Police published its account. The official release describes a left-turn collision, but…
On February 3, 2026, a 42-inch natural gas pipeline ruptured near Mae’s Beach and Johnson Bayou in Cameron Parish. The fire burned for hours, one person was injured, and the federal pipeline-safety regulator ordered the operator to keep the affected segment shut down while it completed testing, a root-cause analysis, and a restart plan….
A vehicle struck an overhead support structure along River Road in Garyville on the evening of January 30, 2026, prompting officials to close Louisiana Highway 44 while the structure was inspected. WDSU reported that the crash occurred around 5:39 p.m. and injured one person. L’Observateur reported that it was a one-vehicle crash and that…
A truck crash and large roadway spill closed Louisiana Highway 23 in Plaquemines Parish on the morning of January 16, 2026. Plaquemines Parish’s 8:13 a.m. traffic notice placed the closure near River Oaks Drive in the Cedar Grove area, south of Chevron Oronite. The parish described an 18-wheeler and a garbage truck. Later reports…
A January 29, 2026 crash on Interstate 20 in Bienville Parish led to the arrest of a Ruston man, according to a report based on information from law enforcement. The Lincoln Parish Journal reported that Louisiana State Police responded to a one-vehicle crash at milepost 64. The report said the driver, Brandon Lamar Brooks,…
A crash near the Amite River closed Interstate 12 eastbound in the Denham Springs area on the evening of February 1, 2026. WBRZ reported that one vehicle was upside down and traffic had backed up to O’Neal Lane. The report was a brief traffic alert, not a completed crash investigation. It did not identify…
The February 1, 2026, Interstate 10 crash in Ascension Parish killed Jose Luis Martinez II and Ashley Garza, both 32, and injured two other people. A September report connected it to a preliminary federal investigation of aftermarket driver-assistance technology; that connection is attributed below and does not establish the crash cause. The National Highway…
Louisiana’s official holiday traffic reports record 692 fatalities and 45,961 suspected injuries across eight holiday periods in report years 2016 through 2025. Together, those are 46,653 reported person outcomes. A single crash can injure several people, so these figures must not be described as 46,653 crashes. This analysis uses a fresh download from the…
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Paul Ohlmeyer was riding his department motorcycle in a funeral escort when he was struck from behind on Airline Highway in New Orleans. He died after being taken to a hospital. The New Orleans Police Department’s January 30, 2026 release places the crash in the 9200 block of Airline…
Shreveport police said a driver encountered ice on an I-20 westbound off-ramp, left the roadway, overturned, and struck a concrete bridge column early on January 30, 2026. The driver died at the scene. In this article What the public reports establish Records and practical next steps Questions the records may answer Wrongful-death and survival…
Cayden Callihan, 18, of Whiteville, North Carolina, was killed in a collision at LA 1032 and Hunter’s Way in Livingston Parish. Louisiana State Police reported that Troop A responded shortly before midnight on January 30, 2026. The other driver sustained minor injuries, according to the same release. That release gives a preliminary sequence, not…