Two teens from Morse are dead following a wreck on I-10 in Acadia Parish just before 8 o’clock last night. Trooper Thomas Gossen says excessive speed was a factor in the accident that claimed the lives Kyler Mier and his passenger Dante Lacombe, both 19.
“A 2012 Camaro exited the highway at a high rate of speed, failed to negotiate the curve, and began to overturn and came to rest after striking the embankment of the LA 91 overpass,” said Gossen.
Recent studies show speed is a contributing factor in 27% of all fatal crashes nationwide. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. Gossen says impairment is unknown, but it appears the driver may have been competing with another vehicle.
“There were two vehicles, this being one of them, that looked to be racing according to witnesses that were at the scene. The speeds are not determined,” said Gossen.
Gossen says Mier was properly restrained, but Lacomb was not.
“While it is not determined in this specific crash, the unrestrained passenger becomes the projectile in the vehicle that can possibly harm the other passengers that are buckled,” said Gossen.
The crash remains under investigation.
