Five killed, 10 critically injured when minivan crashes in Louisiana

Five people were killed and ten people were injured Saturday when a minivan crashed near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There were fifteen people in the minivan and only two were wearing seat belts. Of the people dead there were children as young as 3 years old. The minivan blew a tire and the driver lost control. It hit a box truck and then ran off the road into the left median, turning a few times and finally come to a stop upright on the east side of the road. The person in the truck wasn't injured. The accident shut down I-10 (were the accident happened) in both directions and after two hours one lane was opened on each side. They say that alcohol and drugs were not factors of the crash. The accident came after the Louisiana Legislature passed a law requiring people in every seat to be buckled up.

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This is why they passed the law for everyone to be buckled when in a moving vehicle. It is very sad that this had to happen and right after the legislature passes the law telling everyone to buckle up. I wonder how they fit fifteen people into the minivan because there aren't even enough seats in the van for all of them. So, of course, with over the maximum capacity of people in the minivan, there weren't enough seat belts for them all. It is truly sad that young children died in this accident when they could have taken other vehicles and could have been buckled into their own seats instead of them having to, probably, sit on the others laps. I think that the other ten people in the car were luck because they are still alive but I also think that they should probably feel bad because they should have known that there wasn't enough room in the minivan for them all and should have taken other cars. This is a very sad story but I think that this should teach us all and the people involved in the crash that we should all were our seat belts in the car and to only have as many people in a car that can be buckled up.