Police in Jefferson Parish investigate a fatal crash in Metairie.
It happened at around 11:20 p.m. Sunday night.
Sheriff Joseph Lopinto reports, “deputies were dispatched to a report of a vehicle in the canal at West Esplanade Avenue near Academy Drive. Two occupants inside the vehicle were recovered and pronounced dead on the scene. The crash appears to be a single-vehicle crash in which the vehicle left the roadway for reasons that are not known at this time.”
There is no additional information available at this time as the investigation is ongoing.
