Pedestrian killed in collision at North Claiborne Avenue and Port Street in New Orleans, Louisiana
82-year-old pedestrian killed in St. Claude traffic wreck, New Orleans police say
he man was walking on Port toward Lake Pontchartrain when a vehicle traveling upriver on Claiborne hit him Friday at 8:20 p.m., according to a preliminary Police Department report.
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