Apparent motorcycle wreck tonight on Avenue F.
Many police cars, a fire truck and an ambulance were pulled off the road just south of the AA meeting place. We saw a damaged lime-green bike.
We're praying no one was badly hurt.
Perhaps we'll read about it in the Daily News. Perhaps not.
There was a bad accident in front of the Texaco on Highway 21 around the end of last week, the result (we understand) of holiday drinkin' & drivin'.
When will people learn?
Still at the rumor stage, we heard that a local motorcyclist was killed by a young person driving on a learner's permit - with no accompanying licensed adult.
Looked like cleanup of a bad accident, possibly involving a cop, at the intersection of West 21st and South Tyler in Covington about 12:30 a.m.
Hope nobody was badly hurt.
We've heard that a local teacher was seriously injured in an automobile accident this a.m., and will post more info when we have confirmation.
Or, I pray, we'll be back with an apology that it was a misunderstanding.
And put those babies in car seats.
Infant dies after accident ejected him from vehicle
I dunno what year 4Runner they were driving, but the 2008 model was made to hold SEVEN. They were carrying EIGHT.
The driver oughtta be charged.
We have heard that several area young people were injured in a car accident, one of them seriously.
Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
In the past two-three weeks:
Bull kills farmer in Wisconsin.
Cow kills Ohio farmer.
Cheetahs kill woman at zoo in Belgium. This idiot entered their enclosure, as though they were pets. Sheesh.
Bull sharks sink fishing boat.
I'm sharing my steak with Fluffi tonight, stayin' on her good side ;-).
A generous soul snapped some shots of a truck in the ditch on Spring Valley Rd tonight and sent them to us :-).
Cause of accident, and whether there were injuries, unknown.
UPDATE: Click on the pics. They get huge, and y'all can see detail.
Excitement at Lake Peigneur:
Lake Peigneur, which drained into a salt mine after an oil rig accident 26 years ago, was bubbling Thursday morning, area residents said.More reading on the 1980 Lake Peigneur disaster.
Richard Suire, a retired oilfield worker who lives on the lakefront, said he saw it when he let the dog out Thursday morning. "It was bubbling up probably a foot and a half high, and 15 feet north and south, and about two to three feet wide," he said.
Driving down Avenue F tonight around 6:00 p.m. - well after sundown - and saw an ATV going in the other direction.
After dark. In the road.
Some people are just suicidal, I guess.
I was phoned by an impeccably reliable source today that there were horses loose on Spring Valley Road.
He said this has occurred several times recently. Maybe somebody could help the owner horse-proof his fence?
It's what I get for publishing half-cocked.
Through a better source - a friend of Nick's - I learned that the injured passenger was not his daughter.
Any further corrections will be placed as updates in this post.
Great book by a real journalist:
Young man in his 20s, Nick Johnson, was killed in an ATV accident.
I was told that his young daughter was riding with him and was seriously injured. She and the rest of the family will be in our thoughts.
Over on the Hard Copy board, Ms. Sasha says there was an ATV accident with fatality [redacted screen shot]:
I don't know how old the alleged victim was; don't know him personally. Yeah, "alleged" because I hope it isn't true.
We see them screaming up & down our street, too - in excess of the speed limit. Why do people let their kids play in traffic like that?
Here's the ATV Safety Institute. They've got a library of printable info. Literature could show up in the parents' mailbox anonymously, heh. It takes a village sometimes.
If you see repeat violators and calling 911 doesn't help, you can email the police. I can't locate a similar online form for WPSO; emailing your councilman is another idea.
There've been problems with livestock on the roads.
Drive carefully; don't speed. It ain't any fun hittin' a horse, or driving into a ditch to avoid one.
I've lately seen loose livestock - cows, horses.
Use caution on country roads. Hitting a 1,000 pound plus animal ain't nothin' nice.
