re: What are some other very memorable vehicle accidents

80s, Old Hammond Hwy. Trailer came loose and went into oncoming lane. Hit a car and decapitated the driver. His Mike the Tiger costume was in the back seat.

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Lirette grew up in BR and some on TD likely knew her.

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That’s me in the middle blurred out. Her on the left.



Another big one I remember was a friend of mine in middle school had an older sister at Central High who passed away in a car accident with other teens within a couple days of Christmas.

Has someone said the two guys who tried to jump that draw bridge a few years ago?

Them.

A couple of years after Katrina on I-12 around Mandeville. A pickup truck with an unsecured ladder in the bed was headed east bound on I-12. The unsecured ladder flew out of the back of the pickup truck and in front of an 18 wheeler. The 18 wheeler dodged the ladder and went across the medium and hit a Lexus SUV, that was going westbound on I-12, head on. A mother and 2 of her 3 twenty+ year old daughters were in the SUV and all three of them died. The family lived in Picayune on the same neighborhood block as my parents. I was pulling in to my parents driveway late that afternoon and the 80+ year old, father-in-law and grandfather of the mother and daughters that were killed, walked across the street sobbing and asked me had I heard what happened and I told him I had not. He was sobbing and I could barely understand him and he said his daughter in law and 2 granddaughters were in a crash and the mother and one daughter was killed instantly and said one of the girls in the crash was still alive In critical condition at the hospital....but they didn’t know which girl was still alive. His son, who was the husband and father of the accident victims, drove from Picayune to the hospital in Covington to be with the daughter that had survived the crash....she passed away when he arrived at the hospital. He had tragically lost his wife and two 20+ year old daughters.....and the surviving daughter that was not in the accident lost her mother and 2 very close sisters....they were a very close family devastated by an unsecured ladder. Very sad time in that neighborhood for many months.

1990 I-10 on way to LSU - Notre Dame Basketball game in dome. Super rainy and car/family in front of us drove straight under a stopped semi. Don’t even like to think about it.

And to make it worse, an 18-wheeler dodged a damn ladder.

Terrible story

Back in the 80s when that overpass on Siegen wasn’t there it used to be train tracks you had to go over. The principal’s daughter of the school I went to at the time died on a car crash on those tracks. The car didn’t beat the train and her and maybe others in the car died too.

1965 just south of Shreveport. The most infamous car wreck in Shreveport history. Hit a lone tree just off a curve in the road out in the country. Rumor was he was going near 100 mph. I was at the crash site the next day. Still seared in my brain.

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Mid to late 90s I think. Truck full of cattle went over the side of I-10 east bound coming off the bridge, where it goes down to 1 lane coming into town. Cops spent all day rustling up the cattle that survived the fall.

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I lived on one of the Dales at the time, wife and I went out for a walk and there were literally cowboys riding horses down our street. It was surreal.

Big one for my HS was a wreck that killed a star athlete riding in the back of the car with her best friend driving and her boyfriend sitting next to her, both of whom survived with no long term damage IIRC.

What made it tragic wasn’t that she was an athlete as much as that family had gone through all kinds of other trauma before it including her mother dying of cancer some years before.