Complete Louisiana accident reports and news.
When someone is injured in an accident in Louisiana, it is important to gather information about what happens next.
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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Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge, LA
A Napoleonville man was killed Tuesday morning in Ascension Parish when his car crashed head-on with a dump truck on La. 70, State Police said.
New Orleans, LA
An Atlanta firefighter has been killed in New Orleans after being hit by a car. Officials said Sergeant Frank Guinn was riding his bicycle with his brother-in-law and a friend when they were hit.
Guinn was training for a triathlon. His brother-in-law remains in critical condition.
Shreveport, LA
State police say a single vehicle crash involving a pedestrian, killed a woman from Many.
Troopers say the accident occurred Sunday afternoon on La. Highway 474 west of Florien.
New Orleans, LA
A 36-year-old bicyclist died after being hit by a car in eastern New Orleans on Friday morning. Another bicyclist, who was 40 years old, was taken to a hospital in serious condition, said Officer Frank Robertson III, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department.
Lafayette, LA
Two people were killed Tuesday night in a head-on crash on La. 182 in Iberia Parish, State Police said.
Baton Rouge, LA
A Franklin woman died Monday afternoon after she failed to yield at a stop sign on La. 182 at U.S. 90 and was struck broadside by a van.
Shirley Landry, 83, was pronounced dead at the scene by the St. Mary Parish Coroner’s Office, said a State Police spokesman.
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA
Lafayette, LA
A three-vehicle crash on U.S. 90 on Monday afternoon left one Jeanerette man dead and two New Iberia residents injured, a State Police spokesman said.
Jarwin Bourque, 47, died at a hospital from injuries sustained in the afternoon crash, a State Trooper said.
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA
The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office has identified the man killed in a fatal collision early Sunday (March 16) on I-10 near the Irish Bayou exit, as Sheriff's Office Deputy Brunell A. Magee.
New Orleans, LA
Two lanes at the intersection of Crowder and Chef Menteur boulevards are closed after a fatal accident around 4 a.m. Saturday.
Police said a car was traveling westbound on Menteur at a high rate of speed and struck the back of a garbage truck that was stopped at a red light.