Train strikes, spins minivan in LaPlace; 9th such wreck in 6 months
Published 12:24 pm Tuesday, September 26, 2017
- St. John Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the intersection of Spruce and Captain G. Bourgeois streets in LaPlace at 12:20 p.m. Monday in reference to a crash with injury.
(Editor’s Note: This story has been updated since first publishing with additional information provided by the Sheriff’s Office.)
LAPLACE — Major injury was avoided, police said, when a Toyota Sienna traveling on Spruce Street in LaPlace was struck by a train just after noon Monday.
The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office said the driver, who was not named, was taken to a New Orleans area-hospital, where she was treated and released. No one else was injured. On Tuesday, authorities said the driver was issued a citation for failure to yield at a railroad crossing.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Monday’s collision is the ninth St. John Parish train wreck involving vehicles in the past six months.
