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Ruston man transferred to Shreveport following Interstate
20 crash
By Stacy Temple
stemple@thenewsstar.com
A 23-year-old man was airlifted to Shreveport with
serious injuries following a crash with a tractor-trailer on
Interstate 20 in Ruston.
Ruston police said the crash
occurred at 11:24 a.m. in the westbound lane of Interstate 20 at the
Farmerville Highway exit.
Ruston police handled the
preliminary investigation and said ongoing construction was taking
place on I-20 between Exit 86 and Exit 85 at the time of the
crash.
Traffic was stopped while a construction crew was
setting a beam on a bridge that is under construction.
Capt.
Bill Davis said that a 2007 freightliner tractor-trailer pulling a
box trailer of paint was stopped in traffic in the right westbound
lane, between the foot of the exit ramp and the Farmerville Highway
overpass.
The truck driver was identified as Daniel L.
Fredericks Jr., 47, of Pottsville, Texas.
Police said a 1997
Ford pickup truck, driven by Jim T. Best, 23, of Ruston, was
westbound in the right lane of Interstate 20 and apparently did not
realize that traffic ahead of him had stopped.
When Best did
see the stopped tractor-trailer, he attempted to swerve to the left
but hit the rear of the trailer.
Best was airlifted by
Pafford Ambulance Air-1 Helicopter from the scene to LSU Health
Sciences Center in Shreveport.
Officers said Fredericks and
his passenger, Maria Bochicohio, 47, of Temple, Texas, were not
injured.
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Originally published November 8,
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