St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies investigate what led to a single-vehicle crash that took the life of two teens and injured two other teens.
The sheriff’s office says four 16-year-old girls were in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
“While the cause of the crash is still under investigation, members of the STPSO Traffic Division believe the 2019 white Honda Civic was traveling southbound on Guste Island Road shortly after midnight Wednesday morning at a high rate of speed when it ran off the roadway, impacting two trees, a utility box, and two signs,” said St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith in a report.
Two of the teen girls were pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, and the remaining two have been transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries.
“My heartfelt prayers go out to all of the families involved,” Sheriff Randy Smith said. “While it is always a tragedy when young lives are lost, it is especially challenging to have something like this happen in our community just days away from the start of the new school year. My thoughts are also with the friends of these girls as they return to class mourning two of their classmates.”
