Wear your seatbelts & PLEASE drive safe!
There was a wreck not to far from here today on the interstate... A BAD one!
http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=11584227
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A major wreck early Saturday afternoon left five people dead and ten others in critical condition. Of the five dead, four are believed to be children, troopers on the scene said.
Louisiana State Police Trooper Russell Graham said the accident involved a mini-van and a box truck.
It appears the mini-van had a blowout, causing it to side-swipe the box truck. Both vehicles were heading westbound at the time. The mini-van flipped over and landed in the eastbound lanes.
There were 15 people inside the mini-van. Eleven of them were ejected from the vehicle, Graham said. State Police say there were two adults in the front seats and thirteen children in the back seats of the van. Only the driver of the mini-van was believed to be wearing a seatbelt.
Multiple ambulances were dispatched to the scene.
The names of the victims were not immediately released.
As of 1:30 p.m., the interstate was shutdown in both directions as crews worked to clear the scene.
The interstate has been cleared and all lanes have been reopened.
Motorists traveling in both directions were urged to exit the interstate and take Airline Highway to get around the accident site. The accident occurred between the Highway 73 Prairieville exit and Highland Road.
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They do not expect 8 of the ones that survived the wreck to make it through the night. What was not told here was that a 6 month old baby was killed. The baby was strapped in a car seat but the car seat NOT strapped into the car! I got this information from a neighbor who's son is a EMT...
Another wreck just happened about 4 blocks from here and it was bad. I heard the sirenes and helicopter and knew it was bad. One person was trapped in the car, another must have been ejected and was laying in the road..
SO SAD! People, please wear your seat belts and drive safe!
