NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who allegedly plowed into a crowd enjoying a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, police said Sunday.The New Orleans Police Department issued a statement identifying the man as 25-year-old Neilson Rizzuto. He’s being held at the city’s jail on charges of first-degree negligent vehicular injuring, hit-and-run driving causing serious injury and reckless operation of a vehicle.
The accident happened Saturday during one of the busiest nights of Mardi Gras when thousands of people throng the streets of Mid-City to watch the elaborate floats and clamor to catch beads and trinkets tossed from riders.
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4 comments:
The place is full of thugs now. I will never go back.
7:44. Then you better not leave your house because they're EVERYWHERE!!
How can that be? He only had "2 beers."
30,000 deaths by guns per year
30,000 deaths by vehicles
and we want to ban 7 countries due to race.
Where are the priorities
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