If you ask people to name a place in Louisiana where the unthinkable happens on a daily basis, most people will say New Orleans. Every night at 3:00 in the morning, the ghost of Jean Lafitte visits his old stomping ground of Pirate’s Alley, just behind Jackson Square. In the French Quarter, people wear their Halloween costumes 365 days per year, while uptown, the ladies who lunch dress to be seen, even if they do it in a more conventional manner. People name their dogs Beignet and their daughters Scout; surround yourself with sweetness, and you will notice the sweetness more than you notice the stench of the river that is never far away.
Given its location, New Orleans should have sunk under the sea decades ago, but still it perseveres. A short distance away, Metairie is just another nondescript suburb. If its family dogs were not also named Beignet, it would not be immediately obvious which state it was in. Why is it, then, that cars crash into buildings in Metairie more frequently than they do almost anywhere else? If you were in the car or in the building when a car struck a building, contact a Houma car accident lawyer.
Truck Drives Into Metairie Living Room and Injures Resident
One evening in June 2024, Scott and Jody Castle had just returned home from a road trip. While Jody was sitting on the couch in the living room of the couple’s house in the Holly Grove neighborhood in Metairie, a pickup truck crashed through the wall and struck the back of the couch. This freak accident caused Jody Castle to go flying about 15 feet across the room. She suffered bruises and cuts all over her body from the flying glass and a brain injury that affected her memory and mobility. She has no memory of the accident.
Neighbors who have lived near Scott and Jody say that this is not the first time a car has struck a house on their street. Likewise, earlier this year, one car struck a podiatrist’s office and another struck a notary’s office. In none of these cases were the drivers intoxicated. In most of the incidents, no one was seriously injured because the accidents happened when the businesses were closed or the residents were not at home.
There is no discernible reason that drivers in Metairie should be exponentially more oblivious than drivers everywhere else. When accidents like this happen with this frequency, especially in locations so close together, like the street where the Castle family lives, it is often a case of poorly designed streets. It is usually a case of poorly designed streets; the legal issues are similar to those where multiple pedestrians get hit on the same poorly lit stretch of road over a period of time.
Contact the Law Office of Patrick H. Yancey About Car Accident Cases
A personal injury lawyer can help you if you were injured in an accident where a car struck a stationary structure. Contact the Law Office of Patrick H. Yancey in Houma, Louisiana to set up a consultation about your case.
Sources
https://www.wdsu.com/article/metairie-business-car-crash-building/61544905
https://wgno.com/news/louisiana/jefferson-parish/car-crashes-into-metairie-podiatrist-office/
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