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Pregnant Amanda Bankston, 19, dead, and adult male driver injured in single-vehicle accident on Interstate 59 in Pearl River

Date:

Monday, March 30, 2015

Area:

New Orleans, LA

Shortly before 11:30 p.m., a Chevrolet Blazer overturned along the northbound lanes of Intersate 59. The male driver of the vehicle was injured. Amanda Bankston, who was eight months pregnant at the time of the accident, died of the injuries she sustained, along with her fetus. A two-year-old child who was in a car seat was not hurt in the crash. Police are not yet certain what caused the driver to lose control.