SLIDELL, La. — Louisiana State Police said on Thursday that a man from Mississippi was killed while riding in a pickup truck the night before in St. Tammany Parish.
The crash happened on Interstate 59 in Slidell on Wednesday night, after 9:30 p.m., when a Toyota Tundra slammed into a utility pole, before lighting on fire.
A passenger in the truck, 38-year-old Errol Childs, from Picayune, Miss., was killed.
Authorities said that the driver of the pickup and a second passenger were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Police did not release information about what caused the accident and were unable to say conclusively whether the people in the truck were wearing seatbelts due to the amount of damage.
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