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Anyone remember a traffic crash on Drusilla Ln in the late 80s that killed like 5 teens?
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:01 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:01 am
This had to have happened around 87-88?
If I remember correctly, the teens were in the bed of a pickup truck and the truck was maybe drag racing before losing control and crashing into a ditch near the BREC park on Drusilla.
I think they had just left maybe a crank it up contest or car show in the parking lot of New Generation and had been drinking prior to the crash. Was obviously a huge story locally, but a quick google didnt return anything.
Does any of that ring a bell with the ole school Baton Rouge peeps?
Edited to add: Complete article of the accident on page 4
If I remember correctly, the teens were in the bed of a pickup truck and the truck was maybe drag racing before losing control and crashing into a ditch near the BREC park on Drusilla.
I think they had just left maybe a crank it up contest or car show in the parking lot of New Generation and had been drinking prior to the crash. Was obviously a huge story locally, but a quick google didnt return anything.
Does any of that ring a bell with the ole school Baton Rouge peeps?
Edited to add: Complete article of the accident on page 4
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 8:13 pm
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Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:02 am to SPEEDY
I don't remember but it almost rings a bell
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 10:03 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:04 am to SPEEDY
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traffic crash
Is it me, or is this weird wording for "car accident"?
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:05 am to SPEEDY
Any flowers or markers at the site that has names? Sometimes searching for names helps, especially if an 80s death.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:06 am to SPEEDY
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the teens were in the bed of a pickup truck and the truck was maybe drag racing before losing control and crashing into a ditch near the BREC park on Drusilla.
I think they had just left maybe a crank it up contest or car show in the parking lot of New Generation and had been drinking prior to the crash. Was obviously a huge story locally, but a quick google didnt return anything.
That was a different time for sure
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:07 am to SPEEDY
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I think they had just left maybe a crank it up contest or car show in the parking lot of New Generation
Quite possibly the most "80's sentence" I will ever read on this board...
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:08 am to SPEEDY
Here's what I remember, you can tell me if I'm wrong. Two low rider trucks were drag racing. Happened on a Sunday afternoon and maybe there had been a visit to a daiquiri shop before. Driver was impaired. High school kids all over one truck. The injuries were said to be horrific. It's been over 30 years, so some of this may be wrong.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:11 am to SPEEDY
Jesus man. What prompted you to go in search of such a horrific event?
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:17 am to SPEEDY
Yes. I remember it well. There are markers at the spot. It happen the week of graduation and a few were expected to graduate that Friday. Believe they went to Tara. Very sad.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:20 am to SPEEDY
I grew up in the neighborgood across from that BREC park, my parents had just moved there and said the wreck was the worst they'd ever seen. There's still a cross in the ditch in front of the park.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:23 am to SPEEDY
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If I remember correctly, the teens were in the bed of a pickup truck and the truck was maybe drag racing before losing control and crashing into a ditch near the BREC park on Drusilla.
I remember this but for some reason I thought they were in a different part of town(probably my 12 yr old memory). Wasn't it Belaire HS kids/alumni?
I wasn't driving age yet but I remember my mom and dad really worrying about my oldest brother and his crazy friends. The whole city was talking about it.
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 10:29 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:24 am to SPEEDY
yep...one survivor in the back, a girl. I think about it every time I drive by.
edit: I think they were Belaire kids yes.
edit: I think they were Belaire kids yes.
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 10:27 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:26 am to SPEEDY
Several kids from Belaire died. Very surreal and eerie Monday morning at school from what I remember. Sad, very sad.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:37 am to SPEEDY
I remember...it was 5 teens in a truck. My sister used to take dancing right there at that park.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:46 am to SPEEDY
Posted on 8/12/20 at 11:04 am to SPEEDY
Yep, Belaire HS kids. My wife went to school with them.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 11:33 am to SPEEDY
Yes and that is the wreck that made the state change it’s laws about riding in the back of a pickup. They changed the law to prohibit kids under a certain age to not being allowed to ride in the back
Posted on 8/12/20 at 11:34 am to SPEEDY
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Does any of that ring a bell with the ole school Baton Rouge peeps?
Yep. I lived in Drusilla Place neighborhood at the time. Coming back from church one Sunday afternoon and my parents parked in the parking lot of the BREC park because traffic was stopped. I was I think 12 or 13. I remember one girl wrapped around on of those little cement polls and Mike Graham taking scene photos for the police. Terrible, terrible memory.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 11:37 am to SPEEDY
you the police look it up
Posted on 8/12/20 at 11:46 am to SPEEDY
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Does any of that ring a bell with the ole school Baton Rouge peeps?
Yes. I knew them all. We went to high school together.
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