{"id":41331,"date":"2026-04-04T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41331"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:45:35","slug":"more-than-20-people-injured-after-driver-crashes-into-crowd-at-louisiana-parade-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41331","title":{"rendered":"More than 20 people injured after driver crashes into crowd at Louisiana parade | Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More than 20 people were injured on Saturday after an alleged drunk driver plowed into pedestrians at a Louisiana parade celebrating the Lao New Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadn.com\/news\/crime\/20-injured-after-alleged-drunk-driver-crashes-into-new-iberia-parade\/article_903c1584-150d-4b78-8130-69584c48b5a3.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">according<\/a> to KADN-TV (Fox 15).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The driver, who has not been publicly identified, is in custody, according to a statement from the Iberia parish sheriff\u2019s office. Some of the injuries are believed to be serious, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Eleven people were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AcadianNews\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">transported<\/a> by ground and two by air, according to first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The investigation is ongoing. The sheriff\u2019s office does not believe the act was intentional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Videos posted to social media showed a chaotic scene with several people on the ground near a blue vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Twitter\/X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Louisiana<\/a> governor Jeff Landry said he and his wife were \u201cpraying for all those affected\u201d. He also expressed gratitude for the first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">This year\u2019s annual Louisiana Lao New Year began on Friday and was scheduled to run through Sunday. The event was billed as a celebration of the culture and traditions of the South Asian country Laos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A livestream posted to the festival\u2019s Facebook on Saturday showed attendees dancing on the street, a moving float and dancers in traditional wear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is unclear if the festival will proceed on Sunday as scheduled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/louisiana-parade-car-crash\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 people were injured on Saturday after an alleged drunk driver plowed into pedestrians at a Louisiana parade celebrating the Lao New Year, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}