Three people are dead in three separate auto accidents on local roads, according to Louisiana State Police spokesmen.
Saturday morning, State police say a 20 year old Missouri man died on Airline Highway in St. John Parish when his pickup flipped over after striking an embankment in Garyville.
Troop B investigators identified the victim as 20-year-old William S. Cottle of Troy, Missouri.
Trooper Joseph Piglia said that Cottle was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from his truck.
In Washington Parish on Saturday, an Angie man died when his car flipped in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 438.
Police say 54-year-old Donald B. McKenzie was also ejected from his vehicle, and investigators say McKenzie was not wearing a safety belt.
In Tangipahoa parish, police say a driver was likely drunk when he ran off the road on LA 1049 yesterday, hitting a tree.
His 37-year-old passenger, Marquetta Remble of Hammond, was killed, and an 8 year old in the car was also injured.
The driver in the Tangipahoa accident, 18-year-old Kenneth Hampton, will be booked with DWI and vehicular homicide when he is released from the hospital. No one in Hampton's vehicle was wearing seatbets at the time of the accident.
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