re: What are some other very memorable vehicle accidents

Crash on I-12 at the Tchefuncte River Bridge a couple years ago that killed 4 people. It's the reason the I-12 widening project in St. Tammany was moved forward by years and is currently under construction. A Mandeville woman, 2 BR residents and the driver of the truck believed to have been the cause of the accident all perished.


9 years or so ago there was a bad accident on I-10 in Nola East in the Michoud Blvd exit area. There was a swamp fire that was ongoing for several weeks and the smoke combined with a foggy morning caused a 40 car pile-up. 2 killed, 69 injured.

My grandparents and aunts lived in Hammond. We lived in New Iberia. I was going to be in the 1982 Sugarcane Festival Parade so my grandparents and one of my aunts came down to watch. My other aunt was a senior at SLU and worked at the local radio station. She couldn't leave so she stayed behind. That Saturday morning as we were getting ready, our phone rang. It was the Hammond Chief of Police asking for my grandfather. He informed us that my aunt had gotten off of work and was heading home. She stopped at a red light, and took off when it turned green, but didn't see the dump truck that ran the red light. She was in a Chevette. She died instantly.

Had an employee many years ago that loved to ride his crotch rocket on Saturdays. One Saturday he was driving down Esplanade and someone ran a read light and threw him into the windshield of a car at the opposite red light decapitating him. He was a hard worker and had a young family. Damn shame.

Knew a girl that was a couple years younger than me that ran over a pedestrian during a bad rain storm on the way to school. Didn't realize it until another car that was behind her kept blowing her horn forcing her to stop.

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2 beautiful bright cheerleaders at VCHS

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Pretty sure I know the Hebert girl's father. If he was VCHS alum too, he would have been older than me, but we knew each other. Sorry for your loss.
Another Haydel that attended VCHS passed while I was a student there.
I used to drive right by that wreck site every day. Hunted that big field that parallels the canal for years as well.

Hit home with me too.

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College roommate flew home the Houston. His wife and three little kids pick them up at the airport. On the way home, their car was rear-ended by a drunken truck driver. The wife survive with no injuries, but got to watch her husband and three children burn up in the wreck. There is nothing to please her firefighters could do because they were all trapped in the wreckage. Her husband kept telling the firefighters to ignore him and try to get the children out. He was also able to say some prayers with his wife before he passed.

A few years later, his twin brother's ex-wife was flying with bear kids when the private plane crashed, killing all on board

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Damn, Damn, Damn

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Also remember 4 VCHS kids all dying when the car they were in ran off US90 outside of Houma. They were all coming home from an LSU game. Driver fell asleep and the car ran off the road, flipped and they all supposedly drowned right across from the old Hebert's Junk Yard.

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What year was that?

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And then the worst for me, was when one of my best friends, Jeff (son of Tiger great Scooter Purvis) died with a golden girl on 1-10. That was March 87 I think. That one still makes me sad and I still visit his grave from time to time.

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Joy Smith?

For anyone that is enjoying the Highway 42 expansion/upgrades in Ascension Parish...

Part of the backstory involves a mom who lost her son, niece, and another friend 25-30 years ago in a wreck along the stretch by the horse farm/stables.

The driver was 18 and the two boys were 13. The mom has been a constant figure to get the road upgraded and was even invited to help start the destruction and replacement of the roadway.

(4) DS Boys killed in wreck leaving Moonlight Inn about 12 years ago.

Mike The Tiger (Mascot) killed in car wreck (beheaded?)

That Church Group killed a few years ago headed to Disney (wreck happened North of Gainesville)

One in Lafayette in the last 10 years or so - high school kids, maybe prom night. Car full of teens, probably the one that drank the least nominated to drive - killed 2 or more but the driver survived. I think he was 17 and sentenced to some serious time in prison. I remember thinking how devastating at that age to lose your best friends like that - and how they made an example out of him. I wish I could find the story - I feel like he was sentenced to decades behind bars at 17.

Never mind, I found it and my memory sucks on this. It was only 5 years - I guess in 2006 that seemed like a long arse time to me

Blake Broussard (17), Brittani Head (18), and Ian Brasseaux (18) died when a friend flipped his SUV

Anyone remember the Corvette wreck on coursey? Tackett I think was kids name.

I also remember a wreck in early 00's on tiger bend that killed a CHS student I think.



I remember this one. I heard his dad gave him the vette on his birthday and crashed it on coursey Blvd that night . Three teenagers in a vette , what can go wrong.