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‘I’m just thankful to be alive’ | Driver defies the odds, survives mangled wreckage
POINTE COUPEE PARISH – A 54-year-old woman from Ventress is counting her blessings and realizing that it simply was not her time. The driver defied the odds after a crash that could have easily turned deadly. Michelle Firmin narrowly escaped serious injury after her vehicle flipped off the road...
One killed, two airlifted from wreck in Pointe Coupee Parish
LETTSWORTH - One person was killed and two others — including a child — were airlifted from a wreck on La. 1 in Pointe Coupee Parish on Sunday. State Police said 36-year-old Brittany L. Hughes of Hornbeck died after a pick-up truck hit her sedan head-on shortly before 7 p.m. along La. 1 near La. 15 in Lettsworth.
Two-vehicle crash kills woman in Pointe Coupee Parish
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A woman has died, and a person is seriously injured after a crash on Sunday, June 23, officials say. Brittany L. Hughes, 36, of Hornbeck died from the crash, Louisiana State Police confirmed. According to LSP, shortly before 7 p.m., a 2009 Ford F-150 was...
Pointe Coupee: Woman killed after head-on crash on La 1
LETTSWORTH —- State Police troopers are investigating a deadly crash in Pointe Coupee Parish that left a 36-year-old woman dead. It happened just before 7 p.m. on La 1 in Lettsworth on Sunday, June 23. That’s between Simmesport and Batchelor in Pointe Coupee Parish and north of La 15.
Motorized parachute pilot forced to make emergency landing
MORGANZA — A quick storm forced a pilot inside a motorized parachute to make an emergency landing on Friday evening in Pointe Coupee Parish. Officials say a concerned citizen notified Officer J. Hanks with the Morganza Police Department as to what looked like a parachute making a landing around the spillway area around 5 p.m. on June 21.
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