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re: What are some other very memorable vehicle accidents
Posted on 7/1/24 at 10:48 am to ODanMan
Posted on 7/1/24 at 10:48 am to ODanMan
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Anyone remember the Corvette wreck on coursey? Tackett I think was kids name.
I remember this well. I was 20 yrs old and working at Domino's down the street on Jones Creek that night. I was a delivery driver but was asked to close the store as shift manager that evening.
While entering in sales/inventory numbers for the night the power went out.
Was a shite show for us and we heard it was a wreck on Coursey that caused it but didn't realize how bad it was until the next day. We felt bad for being mad at whoever knocked our power out. terrible accident.
here's an article from the Advocate from 12/29/1995.
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Auto hits utility pole; teen killed, two hurt
December 29, 1995 | Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA)
Page: 1-a | Section: STATE
167 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1350, grade level(s): >12
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One teen-ager was killed and two others seriously injured when their car hit a utility pole off Coursey Boulevard near Hickory Ridge in south Baton Rouge late Wednesday night, an official from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Kenneth Russell Tackett, III, 16, of 16616 Bonham St. died at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center about an hour after the accident, Capt. Larry Wright said. Tackett was a sophomore at Woodlawn High School, where he played on the junior varsity football team.
Wright said the Corvette Tackett was driving was traveling at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway and clipped a utility pole.
All three passengers were thrown from the car, he said.
Trey Joseph Iverstine, 16, of 12518 Wyndy Ave. was in stable condition Thursday night at Baton Rouge General Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said.
Micah Yglesias, also a teen-ager, of 244 N. Little John Drive was in guarded condition Thursday night at Our Lady of the Lake, a nursing supervisor said.
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Posted on 7/1/24 at 10:58 am to fightin tigers
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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.
St Theresa Middle School hosts the Annual "Brett and Brett Basketball tournament" to honor the two Bretts. The 13 yr old friends were students at St Theresa at the time. My son played in this tournament and, while it was an awful tragedy, it really puts things into perspective and makes for a 'hug your babies' weekend.
Here's the article from the Advocate after it happened.
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Three teen-agers die in Ascension wreck
August 21, 1994 | Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA)
Page: 1-A | Section: city des
161 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1370, grade level(s): >12
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Three teen-agers died Saturday afternoon in a wreck on a rain-slicked Ascension Parish highway, state police said.
Amanda L. Acosta, 18, of Belle Rose, was driving a 1986 Nissan Maxima east on La. 42 near Manchac Acres subdivision when she lost control of the car on the slippery road just before 5 p.m., Senior Trooper Stephen Baum said.
The car slid sideways in the highway and a westbound 1985 Ford Bronco II smashed into the passenger side of the car, Baum said.
Acosta and her two 13-year-old passengers, cousin Brett Leggette, of Prairieville, and his friend Brett Frederick, of St. Amant, were pronounced dead at Riverview Medical Center.
Frederick was the only one in the Maxima wearing a seat belt, Baum said.
Bronco driver Danny Breeland, 21, of Maurepas, and his passenger, George R. Allen, 33, of French Settlement, both received moderate injuries and also were taken to Riverview, Baum said. Both men were wearing seat belts at the time of the accident, he said.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 11:23 am to mikelbr
Which site did you use to find those old arse newspaper articles? I've tried to find information about some things that happened in high school and a little earlier a few times but can't find a thing. Mostly pre internet days.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 11:31 am to fallguy_1978
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Which site did you use to find those old arse newspaper articles? I've tried to find information about some things that happened in high school and a little earlier a few times but can't find a thing. Mostly pre internet days.
Use your library card number to log in. Totally Free(well you pay lots of taxes for that MFer.
). EBR Digital Liberry
then go to A-Z list and find Advocate Archives. it's a clunky interface but you can get really good with it. It'll default to searching Advocate And Times Picayune but you can narrow it down to just the Advocate and by date range and such. I can give you tips and shite if you have something you want to research. it's extremely powerful. I found a blurb from 1940s where my dad sang in a Christmas Show with the 4-h club in the 5th grade at Sacred Heart.
And it's exceptionally handy in calling out friends' bullshite high school sports accolades and their 30 yr old arrests for DWIs.
This post was edited on 7/2/24 at 8:13 am
Posted on 7/1/24 at 11:34 am to financetiger
May have been posted already, but there was a crash with a van/minivan on the northshore back in the early/00’s I believe. Took out like three generations of the family if I remember right.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 12:07 pm to mikelbr
Thanks. I was looking for articles related to a drowning that happened in 1991 and found some pretty quickly.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 12:25 pm to financetiger
I'll share this one that happened to the older brother of a good friend of mine in the Pineville area sometime in the 90s:
Him and another woman (not his wife) were broadsided by an 18 wheeler and both were killed. There was no connection between the two so it was assumed by both families that they were having an affair, as unbelievable as that was because of both of their characters.
Some time goes by and the wife of my friend's brother notices that his dirt bike wasn't where he normally kept it. She tells her family and everyone is perplexed. His brothers knew the trails he would normally go ride so they went searching. Sure enough they found the bike badly wrecked, about a quarter of a mile from the road.
After some investigating and a talk with the ME, it was determined that what happened is that he broke his leg (compound fracture) in the motorcycle wreck, managed to crawl all the way to the road, and the good samaritan woman picked him up to bring him to the hospital when both were killed in the car wreck.
Him and another woman (not his wife) were broadsided by an 18 wheeler and both were killed. There was no connection between the two so it was assumed by both families that they were having an affair, as unbelievable as that was because of both of their characters.
Some time goes by and the wife of my friend's brother notices that his dirt bike wasn't where he normally kept it. She tells her family and everyone is perplexed. His brothers knew the trails he would normally go ride so they went searching. Sure enough they found the bike badly wrecked, about a quarter of a mile from the road.
After some investigating and a talk with the ME, it was determined that what happened is that he broke his leg (compound fracture) in the motorcycle wreck, managed to crawl all the way to the road, and the good samaritan woman picked him up to bring him to the hospital when both were killed in the car wreck.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 1:08 pm to choupiquesushi
quote:This (in 1999) and the 1993 Amtrak derailment near Mobile had huge national ramifications for certification, testing, and monitoring operators of all sorts of vehicles.
mother's day bus wreck in NOLA... La's single deadliest vehicle wreck
Posted on 7/1/24 at 1:15 pm to financetiger
Cole Trickle and Rowdy Burns was nasty
Posted on 7/1/24 at 1:18 pm to mikelbr
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library card
The most underutilized gem in America .
Posted on 7/1/24 at 3:18 pm to financetiger
Not in Baton Rouge but in River Ridge on Jefferson Hwy there was a curve where the older brother of a guy I knew amd some of his friends had hit a telephone pole and died. Years later a teen on his motorcycle going too fast went through the Taco Bell that was right where the pole was. His body was on the other side of the building and their were body parts all in the Taco Bell. One of those gore websites got ahold of the accident scene photos and one of them was a leg hanging from the ceiling and the rest of him in the drive thru.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 3:52 pm to mikelbr
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And it's exceptionally handy in calling out friends' bullshite high school sports accolades and their 30 yr old arrests for DWIs. ?
Weaponized the library. I like it.
Posted on 7/2/24 at 5:31 am to financetiger
This happened in SE Ark. around 1980, and I don't like to even think about it. 2 twin sons of my ex-boss were returning home after the last day of school; I think it was their senior year. They were behind the school bus in their car, laughing and waving at the kids in the bus. They pulled into the opposite lane to pass the bus, and were immediately hit head-on by a semi. Both died instantly. I never saw my ex-boss after that, but can't imagine the pain...
Posted on 7/2/24 at 6:57 am to financetiger
When I was at LaTech in the mid eighties a friend was a big Jewish gal that rode a motorcycle. She loved the biker mystique and was about 6’ 175lbs with a pet rat that basically lived in her medium length curly kinky hair and on her shoulders. She always wore jeans and a black leather jacket, year round.
She and another girl I was friends with rode bikes down to Alexandria one weekend to another girls party. On the ride back they crossed the double yellow line on a hill and hit a pickup truck going the other way head on.
Double closed casket funeral in Ruston though both were from out of state.
She and another girl I was friends with rode bikes down to Alexandria one weekend to another girls party. On the ride back they crossed the double yellow line on a hill and hit a pickup truck going the other way head on.
Double closed casket funeral in Ruston though both were from out of state.
Posted on 7/2/24 at 7:02 am to Sidicous
Scott Greenlee, one hell of a guy, Belaire classs of 1985, on that bridge that separated Ascension parish from EBR. He came down and there was a ridiculously badly engineered bump at the bottom that sent his vehicle flying into the ditch. I think there was a settlement eventually. He was a kid I grew up with, tough as nails, good athlete, a battler, with great parents. My heart broke for his father who poured his soul into that kid. RIP.
Posted on 7/2/24 at 7:29 am to CDH1990
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In '09, at The Buzz in Hammond, some guy ran over 5 people walking down a side road of the bar, killed 3 of them.
I remember this. The driver went home and went to sleep where the police eventually arrested him. Word was that one of the victims shows was still stuck in his trucks grill. The driver had no idea what he had done.
Posted on 7/2/24 at 7:38 am to pdubya76
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Lance Morrow was killed accidentally when skipping school to dove hunt . The guy that accidentally shot him died in a motorcycle crash a few years ago.
I was very close to this incident. There were a lot of rumors surrounding this incident and I appreciate you leaving them out of your ost. Your post is factual except for the dove hunt. They skipped school just to skip school the Friday before Mardi Gras. They were on Lances back porch when it occurred as they passed the gun around.
This post was edited on 7/2/24 at 8:13 am
Posted on 7/8/24 at 11:57 am to financetiger
The one that stands out to me occurred a few summers ago, my son's PE teacher at Shenandoah Elementary, who I always noticed because she was quite attractive (see below) and very flirty with me, was driving while intoxicated (and with a suspended license) and was going over the Killian Bridge in Livingston and crossed the center line and hit another vehicle and killed the young woman, Brittany Costello. Terrible situation with a life lost and another completely destroyed. Pretty sure the case is still tied up in the courts and she's awaiting her sentence.
This post was edited on 7/8/24 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 7/8/24 at 1:30 pm to CockyTime
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Just came across this thread searching for the name of a young boy maybe in middle school at McKinley that took his parents car out one night and hit a tree and died. I remember playing sports with him but can't think of his name. This would've been late 90s. I wanna say Thomas...
Thomas Dwyer. He was on my little league baseball team.
They were driving in Woodgate and probably almost all the way to the back where the road curves slightly to the right. They didn’t make the curve and hit an oak tree.
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