NEW ORLEANS, LA — One person died after a two-vehicle accident at an intersection in the St Thomas area of New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday, February 14th, 2015. Local news reports said that the accident happened at about 8:15 Saturday morning.
An as-of-yet unidentified 40-year-old woman was killed when the car she was driving was struck by a Chevy Trailblazer SUV at the intersection of Laurel and Josephine. Police say that the SUV ran the stop sign and struck the side of the victim’s car.
The woman died of the injuries she sustained in the accident.
The driver of the vehicle was identified in the report as 21-year-old Logan Calhoun, who currently faces charges in connection with the accident.
The New Orleans Police was helping with the accident investigation.
Scene of the Accident
View of the Road
Commentary:
If the police and the news are accurate, and the driver of the SUV did in-fact run the stop sign as the reports suggest, then there probably isn’t too many ways of getting around the driver of the SUV taking the fault in the accident. Any time a vehicle causes an accident in the act of breaking a law or statute, then this is probably considered negligence per-se, where an act is found negligent because it violates a law or statute designed for safety. Then again, this wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen a news report get things wrong if it happened another way.
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