Teen killed in 4th of July boating accident on Blind River; driver booked for DWI, vehicular murder

FRENCH SETTLEMENT – A person was arrested after a 17-year-old woman was killed in a Fourth of July boating accident in Livingston Parish.

A number of regulation enforcement businesses had been known as to Blind River close to the Diversion Canal Monday night after {the teenager}, recognized as Madison Bradley of Slidell, fell from a pontoon boat.

“She was my the whole lot, she was my greatest good friend,” Madison’s mother Leigh-Ann Bradley mentioned. 

“She beloved life. She had an incredible life, an incredible spirit to herself. She would do something for anybody, on the drop of a hat it did not matter,” Madison’s dad Michael Bradley mentioned. 

The Division of Wildlife and Fisheries mentioned she was standing previous the guard rails on the entrance of the boat with one other passenger when it hit the wake of one other passing vessel. Each passengers fell out because of uneven waters, and Bradley was struck by the boat’s propellers.

Her physique was recovered later that day. The opposite passenger who fell out was not critically damage.

The motive force of the boat, 33-year-old Dustin Crowe, was arrested and booked into Livingston Parish Jail for vehicular murder, DWI, and reckless operation of a vessel.

The woman’s dying comes after a number of lethal incidents on the water in and round that very same space. Final week, three boaters drowned in Lake Maurepas, and one other man drowned in the Diversion Canal simply weeks earlier than that. 

“I have been doing this for 40 years, and what I’ve discovered is you might have a excessive 12 months and you’ve got a low 12 months. That is sadly a excessive 12 months,” Sergeant Randy Lanoux mentioned.