A morning wreck leaves one man dead. Just before 9 o'clock, the Shreveport Fire Department was called to an accident involving an 18-wheeler and a pick-up truck at the intersection of North Market and I-220. The pick-up truck's driver was pronounced dead at the scene by the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office...
A Shreveport man is in jail tonight after leaving the scene of a crash in which he slammed his vehicle into a speed limit sign, numerous construction barrels and an impact attenuator that was on the back of a crash truck.
Multiple wrecks in Shreveport this morning sent several people to the hospital -- and kept traffic tied up for a while. Just after 6 o'clock, an 18-wheeler carrying lumber tipped over on the entrance ramp from I-20 onto 3132 East, spilling the lumber onto the roadway...
Last year, SWEPCO had some overhead supports collapse along part of I-220. Now, the utility has a permit from the State Department of Transportation and Development to repair that...but it's going to shut down the portion of the highway between Jefferson Paige Road and I-20 for most of Saturday...