1 in 750 trillion: the staged truck crashes of New Orleans East
Between 2004 and 2017, sideswipe accidents involving 18-wheelers on a 14-mile stretch of I-10 in New Orleans East tripled from 69 to nearly 200 per year. The cars always had multiple occupants — the average jumped from 1.4 to more than 3 people per vehicle. An LSU statistician calculated the odds of this pattern occurring naturall…
