State troopers are continuing to investigate ten fatal crashes that turned the roads scary across Louisiana over the Halloween weekend. “Not sure if it’s tied into Halloween at all, but we had fatal crashes all over the state – north Louisiana, central Louisiana and south Louisiana,” according to Sergeant James Anderson.
The unusually high number of violent crashes left 12 people dead, including two children. A Grant Parish woman, 38-year-old Miranda Sue Derrick was charged with vehicular homicide in a two-vehicle accident Halloween evening on U.S. 165.
Sergeant Anderson says the 10 fatal crashes and 12 deaths were particularly tragic in a couple of instances where children lost their lives in separate accidents. He says, “a child in Acadia Parish was killed, we also had one in the Baton Rouge area, an 11-year-old that was killed.”
Sergeant Anderson says there were a number of reasons for the high number of deadly accidents over the weekend. “A variety of things. Distracted driving is a problem, impaired driving in some of these crashes, reckless driving in some of these crashes. Also, several people died who were not properly restrained,” said Sergeant Anderson.
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