Two men died early Friday when a driver tried to jump a car over an opening created by a pontoon swing bridge in southwestern Louisiana, state police said on Facebook.
According to the post, shortly before 2 a.m. CT, Louisiana State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in the water at the Black Bayou Bridge on Louisiana Highway 384 near Lake Charles.
A witness told police that the driver of a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze stopped at the bridge, which was closed to vehicular traffic as a boat passed on the Intracoastal Waterway. The 165-foot section of the bridge on pontoons had been moved to allow the ship to pass.
A passenger got out of the car and pushed up a gate arm to allow the driver to continue. The driver picked up the passenger and went up to a section of the bridge that is raised as boats pass.
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6 comments:
Yee haw!!
Darwin awards.
Hell Yeah
General Lee's car back in action
Chevrolet Cruze...what can I say?
Alcohol involved? Ya think?
They crossed the Rio Grande at the border without a bridge and thought they could cross this river too, I guess. This water stopped them. Oh well, two less to deport. Alive that is. " We don need no stinkin bridges."
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