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…
A federal safety investigation now includes the February 1 Interstate 10 crash in Ascension Parish that killed Jose Luis Martinez II and Ashley Garza, both 32, and injured two other people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened Preliminary Evaluation PE26007 on September 21, 2026. The agency is examining five crashes involving vehicles equipped…
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. The Shreveport Police Department release describes a blue Chevrolet Blazer and places the crash at the Linwood and Pierre Avenue off-ramp…
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…
A crash near Airline Highway and McClelland Drive sent two people to the hospital on the night of January 29, 2026, according to WBRZ’s report. The station said Baton Rouge EMS described one person’s condition as critical and the other’s injuries as minor. Those descriptions came from the initial response. The public report did…
A community traffic page reported a crash involving injuries at Airline Highway and Commerce Lane in Prairieville. The public snippet did not identify the date, vehicles, people involved, responding agency, or nature of the injuries. That is the limit of what can responsibly be said from the source. A search completed on September 28,…
A community traffic page reported a hit-and-run crash involving injuries on I-10 eastbound near mile marker 171, described as just before the Prairieville exit. The indexed post did not identify the date, vehicles, people involved, investigating agency, or nature of the injuries. A September 28, 2026 search did not locate an incident-specific police release…
Jailon Rhine of Jeanerette was 18 when he died after a collision on Louisiana Highway 674 near Cherri Lane. Louisiana State Police said the two vehicles met head-on shortly before midnight on January 28, 2026. Rhine was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries and died there. The other driver was also seriously…
Latrice Y. Robinson, 44, of Marksville died in a head-on crash on Louisiana Highway 1 at Tyler Road in Rapides Parish on January 28, 2026. Louisiana State Police said two people in the other vehicle sustained moderate injuries and were taken to a local hospital. The agency’s January 29 release described an initial investigation,…