A 24-year-old Texas woman has died in an auto accident just east of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. The accident occurred on Interstate 10 when a towed vehicle broke free and crashed into another car.
The towed vehicle, a Jeep Liberty, was not occupied. It was being towed behind a Chevy pickup truck. The Louisiana State Police are investigating the accident, but are not sure why the vehicle broke loose. When it did, the Jeep crossed over the median on the interstate and crashed into a 2008 Nissan.
On Friday, June 7, a King Air 200 crashed in Baker, Louisiana, killing the 71-year-old pilot. According to the local coroner, the pilot died from fire and inhalational injuries, as well as from blunt force trauma. The pilot was en route to McComb, Mississippi from Baton Rouge, Louisiana; however, the crash occurred shortly after take-off.
The plane crashed into a residential area in Baker, but no one was injured on the ground. There was significant damage to three houses. According to investigators, the plane first hit a home on Rue Nicole, causing two large holes in the roof. After striking a tree, it crashed into the back side of two homes on Rue Jennifer.
In June 2012, a ship's captain filed a Jones Act lawsuit against his employer, Associated Marine Services (AMS), and International Divers, claiming he suffered an injury to his left shoulder because of inadequate communication with the ship's deck hands. On May 22, 2013, the captain filed a notice asking the judge in the case to dismiss International Divers from the case. The judge dismissed the diving company from the lawsuit the next day without prejudice.
The lawsuit alleges AMS was negligent because they did not provide a proper means for the captain to communicate with the deckhands. As a result, the captain suffered the injury while pulling a line to untie the Ronnie Massad, a ship owned by AMS.
A 21-year-old man from Slidell, Louisiana, has been charged with negligent homicide and negligent injury in connection with a fatal accident that happened about 6 a.m. on February 14, 2013. The two-vehicle accident occurred on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans. The man that was killed was also from Slidell.
The 21-year-old was arrested after a warrant was issued by the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. Investigators said the man was driving recklessly and this is what caused the accident. According to police reports, the victim used his turn signal to indicate he was turning into his place of employment. The defendant failed to realize the victim's vehicle had stopped and rear-ended the car. However, just seconds before the accident, the defendant was waving and honking at friends he was passing on the road.
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Fresenius Medical Care by the children of a woman on dialysis. The lawsuit was filed in Louisiana, but was transferred to the Massachusetts' U.S. District Court. There are currently another 161similiar cases against Fresenius pending in that jurisdiction.
The lawsuit alleges the mother of five died as a result of using GranuFlo and NaturaLyte, which are two dialysis products from Fresenius. The products were "unreasonably dangerous," according to the allegations in the lawsuit, but it also claims Fresenius tried to hide the dangers from patients.
A one-vehicle auto accident on May 25 claimed the life of a 35-year-old woman from Patterson, Louisiana. The woman was a passenger in the front seat of a 2007 Toyota Rav4, which was driven by a 46-year-old man from Gibson.
According to Louisiana State Police Troop C reports, the accident occurred about 5:30 a.m. The vehicle was traveling west on Deadwood Road in Terrebonne Parish when it left the right side of the roadway and hit a tree. The woman was not wearing a safety belt and was thrown into the windshield of the SUV. She died at the scene of the accident.
An early morning car accident on May 16 has claimed the life of an 18-year-old from Elton, Louisiana. According to Louisiana State Police, the two-vehicle accident occurred about 7:00 a.m., on Hwy 397 and Ward Line Road.
The 18-year-old who died was a passenger in a 2013 Nissan Altima, which was driven by another18-year-old and had a third 18-year-old passenger in it. Police say the Altima was headed north on Ward Line Road and did not stop at a posted stop sign. The vehicle struck a 2004 Jeep, which was headed east on Hwy 397.
A settlement has been reached in a fatal 2010 aviation accident that involved an AirCare 5 helicopter and a Cessna Long airplane. The two aircraft collided in midair. A 32-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were killed in the crash that occurred on New Year's Eve near the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport in Weyers Cave, Virginia. The two fatalities were in the airplane.
A lawsuit was filed by the parents of the decedents against PHI Air Medical Inc., which is a transportation company in Louisiana, and the pilot of the helicopter. That lawsuit has now been settled for a reported $60 million. It was scheduled to begin before a jury this week in the circuit court in Augusta County, Virginia.
The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the plaintiff in a wrongful death lawsuit did not prove that jailers at the Iberville Parish Jail were deliberately indifferent in the suicide death of a female inmate in 2008.
The woman was arrested and according to reports, told one jailer that she was going to hang herself. He told another jailer. Due to this threat and the fact the woman was combative towards jail personnel, the decision was made that she would be moved to a cell designed to isolate prisoners and placed on suicide watch. She was placed in the isolation cell, but she wasn't searched first. She was wearing a belt, but none of the jailers that had contact with her saw the belt or realized she was wearing one.
Two minors are dead after a 2:00 a.m., car accident early Monday morning in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The minors, a 10-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were in a car driven by a 37-year-old man who was traveling on Hwy 44 near Hwy 54. Authorities are not sure why the driver lost control of the vehicle, but it left the roadway and hit a tree.
Both the driver and another passenger of unknown age in the front seat were wearing their safety belts. Neither was seriously injured; however, the two minors in the back seat of the car were not wearing their safety belts and were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
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