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Swimming Pool Drowning At Community Pool In Youngsville
Surveillance footage which came to light after the incident clearly shows that an 8-year-old boy fell off a raft at an unattended swimming pool, and he had been at the bottom of the pool for some time before first responders arrived. Youngsville Police Chief Rickey Boudreaux said the incident occurred […]
read moreThe Check Is In The Mail
After waiting almost a year for the insurance company to settle a routine car crash claim, a Louisiana man asked a state District Judge to intervene in the matter. Victims in Lafayette and Lake Charles who are still waiting on insurance companies to pay, and are forced to contemplate bad […]
read moreA Tragic End To A Family Vacation
An 11-year-old boy was killed in a car crash as he returned to Lafayette from a trip to Alabama. The wreck occurred in Foley, as Cameron Bailey was on the way home with a family friend from a vacation in Orange Beach. According to police, a male driver in a […]
read moreThird Party Liability In Car Crashes
An estimated 14 percent of Louisiana drivers are uninsured, and this figure is well above the national average. On top of that, there are a significant number of under-insured drivers, because the state minimum is only $15,000 per person in bodily injury coverage and $25,000 in property damage coverage. Fortunately, […]
read more‘A Gentleman And A Gunfighter’?
One hundred thirty years ago this month, notorious Wild West gunslinger Clay Allison, whose childhood brain injury probably explained his lifelong erratic and violent behavior, was killed in a wagon accident near his home in Pecos, Texas. Mr. Allison was born around 1840 in Tennessee. Some years later, the Confederate […]
read moreIn Louisiana, 'Stop' Means 'Stop'
A motorist who apparently either coasted through a stop sign, or failed to see it entirely, caused a severe car crash in Log Cabin. According to officials in Morehouse Parish, 56-year-old Richard Lindeman Jr. of Bastrop, was westbound on Highway 140 when, for reasons that are still unclear, he failed […]
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