DOTD will have numerous upcoming road closures that you need to be aware of in relation to phase one of the Interstate 10 overpass project in Lafayette at I-49 (Evangeline Thruway).
There were two fatal crashes that happened very early Friday morning. One of the deaths involved a driver who was not wearing a seat belt; the other death involved a pedestrian getting hit by a vehicle that apparently just kept on going.
If you ask most Americans if the interstate system throughout the United States was built with the regulation that for every 5 miles of winding road there had to be 1 mile of straight highway in order to land a military plane if need be, they will more than likely say "oh yeah, that's true". One historian has something to say to every American about the One Mile in Five claims.