Reports are saying that a man from Metairie died as he was traveling back home from Texas after evacuating from Hurricane Ida. Authorities say that 29-year-old Timothy Achee was traveling along I-10 near Grosse Tete and Lobdell when an 18-wheeler smashed into stopped vehicles, igniting a fiery cluster on the interstate.
44-year-old Dawn Bernard of Carencro and 53-year-old James Bellard of Church Point are dead after their vehicles crashed with each other around midnight on Saturday on Louisiana Highway 95 at the intersection with Louisiana Highway 1097 about 4 miles north of Duson.
An agricultural pilot from Louisiana was killed in Alabama late last week when the helicopter he was flying crashed in an unincorporated area near Sylacauga, authorities said.