re: Multiple crashes on I-55 Manchac Swamp Bridge, at least 7 dead

Wow. That is terrible. A friend of ours and her husband were in this, car totalled but no injuries

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There's an aerial shot of the carnage on the front page of the T-P this morning.

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That is a friend of mine. He is ok, and honestly looks like he was lucky with how the rest of the vehicles near him fared.

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How his truck fared! Driver's side down in a couple or three feet of swamp water, after falling 25' or 30', after being in that huge arse collision.

I'm glad he's okay. He might want to buy a lottery ticket because he's one lucky bastard.

Yep.

Some people that never experienced a car crash feel they are invincible because they are in a metal vehicle.

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Don’t matter if you are doing 60 or 80 you will get same result when someone brakes hard or gets clipped in tense fog. Perfect example The Big One in NASCAR. Though it’s not foggy you get the idea how the domino effect works.

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Livingston Parish with the NASCAR science. This case is closed.

I would not mind if LSP actually started pulling over more people (mainly on I-12 & I-10) and implementing adjustable speed limit signs on I-55. That bridge always gave me the heebie-jeebies.

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And to the idiots here who think driving slower is bad, nearly every fatal interstate crash is caused by people speeding/driving too fast for the road conditions. Speed kills in car crashes.

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Yes and no. What you are saying is correct, but in order for it to stay correct the rest of the vehicles on the road need to be driving at a slow speed. If there is no law requiring everyone to go 35 and only one person is doing so, then those driving the speed limit will come upon him at the last minute and not be able to react.

There does need to be some sort of rule on these bridges that posts max speed at 35 or some sort in cases of severe weather. There also needs to be indicators so everyone is aware, and police need to be posted throughout the bridges. This way the majority of drivers will be at the same speed and the assholes will get ticketed.

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My daughters classmate died in the pileup. She was 21.

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That sucks!
I have a daughter that is 20 and she travels up and down I-55 a decent amount. This kind of crap scares the hell out of me.
I sent her some of the articles and pictures last night as a reminder how bad things can be on that stretch of road and how careful she needs to be.

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Side note: does I-55 have those monitors that hang above the roads on I-10/I-12 (Amber alert & cheesy DUI messages?)

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I believe just one southbound right before the Ruddock exit that gives estimated travel time to the I-10 / I-55 interchange, 310 and Loyola exits (MSY airport access) along with Amber and safety messages.

I-55's and the Spillway's proximity to Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas create the same fog hazard conditions as the Causeway experiences this time of year. Arrows show the I-55 accident's location near Manchac.

Always take the low road