Lafayette, LA - Accident News and Resources including car, bicycle, motorcycle and truck accidents and much more.

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Being injured in a serious accident is always a shocking and scary experience, and dealing with the aftermath is exhausting and stressful. Accident victims are forced to deal with hospitalization, medical treatments, missed work, and lost income, often while trying to manage pain and disability from their injuries. And then the insurance adjusters start circling. Find out more about accidents and what issues an injured person needs to be aware of by going to this link.

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Most recent accident reports

Harold Richard, 55, has been killed after the vehicle he was riding in changed lanes and hit a truck that was towing another vehicle that was also carrying passengers, causing a three-vehicle accident Friday night.
Date: 
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Roadway: 
US 190
Type: Car Accident
Date: 
Friday, March 27, 2015
Roadway: 
LA 13
City: 
Mamou, LA
Kista L. Sedotal of Jeanerette was walking along on La. 182 just after 1 a.m. when she was struck and killed by a westbound pickup truck. She was pronounced dead at the scene The pickup fled the scene, traveling west on La. 182.
Date: 
Friday, March 13, 2015
Roadway: 
La. 182
Reginald Jenkins, aged 32, was driving north on Louisiana Highway 35 in in Opelousas, Louisiana last Sunday morning when for reason not yet known, failed to adjust to the road that curves left, crashing into a storage  building and ended up in a shal
Date: 
Monday, March 2, 2015
Type: Car Accident
Gerald Minnick, 22, Abbeville, died in the collision Saturday on La. 88 in Iberia Parish. Authorities arrested Virgil Bryant III, 24, New Iberia, hours after the crash.
Date: 
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Roadway: 
La. 88
Tyrone Celestine was riding his bike on West Mills Avenue when he was hit by a Dodge truck and fatally injured. Celestine was ejected from his bicycle, and was not wearing a helmet; he died at a local hospital.

The accident occurred just before 8 a.m. on Martin Street in Breaux Bridge when for unknown reasons, a pickup truck ran off the road and hit a group of children.

Sonnier was pronounced dead at a hospital after the 10:30 p.m. accident. The car driver was cited for making an improper turn. Alcohol is not suspected. 
Date: 
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Roadway: 
La. 343
Eric Bischoff was driving on La. 13 when for unknown reasons his car crossed the centerline and struck a vehicle being driven by Gerald Fields in the opposite direction. Neither driver was wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.
Date: 
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Roadway: 
La. 13
City: 
Eunice, LA
Randol was flown to a Lafayette hospital and is in an intensive care unit in critical condition. The driver who hit her has neither been sited nor identified.
Date: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Roadway: 
Fournerat Road
Jenkins died after being transported to a local hospital. A toxicology test has been sent to a local crime lab.
Date: 
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Roadway: 
LA 358
A 57-year-old bicyclist was killed Monday after he turned in front of a pickup truck on Roselawn Drive at around 6 p.m., officials said. James McCarthy, of Lafayette, was pronounced dead at a local hospital, Lafayette Police Cpl. Paul Mouton said.
Date: 
Monday, August 11, 2014
Roadway: 
Roselawn Drive
Date: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Roadway: 
Interstate 10
City: 
Rayne, LA
Type: Car Accident

A pedestrian walking on the service road in the 2500 block Southeast Evangeline Thruway was struck by two cars Thursday night and killed.

Date: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

A motorcyclist was critically injured after crashing into a car that pulled into its path on Thursday morning in New Iberia, the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office announced.

Date: 
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Roadway: 
Center Street