The community of Caldwell Parish is grieving the loss of two people killed in a single-vehicle crash on the morning of September 18. 60-year-old Melanie Gray and 43-year-old Brinkley Thomas lost their lives in an incident that took place on Louisiana Highway 133 near Bellview Lane. Gray was behind the wheel of the 2023 Hyundai […]
33-year-old Terrance Dewayne Dartez was killed in a collision with a garbage truck on U.S. 165 on the morning of September 11. Dartez was a passenger in a Ford F150 that was driven by 38-year-old Kevin Todd Miller. The F150 was about a half-mile south of Ikes Road when it failed to slow down as […]
An unidentified driver was killed on the afternoon of September 3. The incident took place on Louisiana Highway 384 near A. Granger Road in Calcasieu Parish. For reasons that are not known at this time, a 2008 Nissan Maxima swerved off the left side of the road. The story did not end there, as the […]
Unfortunately, a young man riding in the passenger seat of a Freightliner utility vehicle was killed on August 28 after being hurled from the car. Si Gabriel Sonnier was just 18 years old, and reports indicated that he was not restrained during that fateful trip. The truck swerved off the road around the intersection of […]
64-year-old Alfonso J. Rubio-Araiza’s life was cut short in a crash on LA Highway 113 near East River Road on the afternoon of August 20. He was heading south on the highway when the car veered off the road and hit a tree. After the violent collision, the vehicle burst into flames. Rubio-Araiza was pronounced […]
Nothing can prepare children or teachers when something catastrophic happens to a member of their class. It’s hard to come up with anything to say when chairs that were occupied by kids last week are now vacant. That’s the grim reality friends and classmates of Bryn Thompson and Harrison Thompson will have to endure in […]
Despite numerous examples of fatal consequences when someone gets behind the wheel, individuals think they can make it from point A to point B without incident after a few drinks. This overconfidence and lack of consideration for what might happen to others takes over at that moment, and someone may not live to tell the […]
On the morning of July 29, a man drove a vehicle right into Lake Charles in the vicinity of the Interstate 10 bridge. This story gets even more bizarre because apparently, the unidentified man was behind the wheel of a vehicle that didn’t belong to him. The woman who owned the car told a local […]
A grave tragedy took place a couple of blocks away from the boardwalk just off Convention Center Boulevard. 75-year-old Yvette Bowens was killed in a single-vehicle car accident on the afternoon of July 29. The incident took place on the entry ramp from Convention Center Boulevard, intersecting with the US 90B West HOV lane. The […]
While traffic lights usually aren’t taken for granted, other road signals put in place in order to safeguard drivers can be overlooked. Stop signs, oncoming bump displays, or yield warnings are often taken for granted, as a driver may not see any incumbrances to their path directly ahead. One of those situations appears to have […]
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