Accident on basin bridge
 

Been sitting in traffic for about an hr. There is an accident right before the Whiskey bay bridge going towards baton rouge.

sent from my iphone slayer Galaxy NOTE II

that sux a big one

I spent almost 5 hours up there back in ~'93.

I was coming back from scouting at Sherburne. I think it was in Aug. but not sure. It started raining after I crossed the Wiskey Bay Pilot channel bridge. Then I stated seeing vehicles brake lights way up in front of me. I was pulling my boat and got in the middle of the road and started weaving side to side to let the people behind me know to slow down. After I finally came to a stop, people in front of me were getting out [remember it was raining] to try to look up the road.

Then about 30 seconds later there was a loud "bang"......yep, a 1 ton truck could not stop about 200 yards behind me. The first wreck was 3 cars that crashed up near the Atchafalaya river bridge.....3 dead there. The wreck behind me, the truck hit a horse trailer. The guy with the horse trailer had just bought a horse for several thousand dollar and it was killed.

Then about a mile behind me there was another bad wreck. A car caught on fire and I think it was 4 people killed. That car was still burning when we finally started moving almost 5 hours later. There were probably 20+ minor collisions and the news report was 96 vehicles were damaged. The west bound lane did not open until the next afternoon.

This was about 4 PM and it was very hot. But having been scouting that day, I had an ice chest with a couple of drinks and some food so I was a lot better off than most.

I saw the line of traffic yesterday in my way back from big Alabama. It was insane, and they had room for vehicles to pass around the wrecked vehicle...

It looked like a Ford focus. the car was bent in half and the whole passanger side was crumpled and smashed in

sent from my iphone slayer Galaxy NOTE II