Video of the crash on the Causeway flooded social media, people taking to Facebook to post pictures and videos of the aftermath.
NEW ORLEANS — Video of Tuesday morning’s crash on the Causeway flooded social media, with people taking to Facebook to post pictures and videos of the aftermath. Witnesses described the sounds they heard as people slammed into each other.
Aaron Ordoyne said, “Our first thought was to start running up and checking on people.” Ordoyne was one of many traveling across the causeway Monday morning. He said, “We had to slam on the breaks to stop from hitting the car in front of us, the driver swerved to the left a little bit, and not within five seconds of that an 18-wheeler hit the car next to us.”
Witness video showed a causeway police car crushed in the crash, and how close one car came to going over the edge. Pictures show cars jammed between other vehicles and barriers. Others show cars pinned by trucks.
Gary Cassard says he saw people slamming on their breaks, he said, “Jesus took the wheel… And got me out of harm’s way.”
He said some drivers nearly went over the side, saying, “At least a quarter mile ahead of me, around mile marker 11.8, four cars, were jammed all their noses were equally jammed together, blocking the whole causeway.”
He says he could hear the carnage unfolding around him, “As three trucks got entangled and blocked the whole way, but behind them, were many vehicles, probably three to four, slamming into them, causing these huge noises, which sounded like explosions.”
More pictures show the backlog of traffic. Viewer video shows a truck lifted up and on the edge of the barrier. Other photos show the dense fog.
Ordoyne said, “At the max, the best was 100 feet, you were averaging 50 feet.”
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