{"id":108344,"date":"2025-01-01T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/10-dead-30-injured-and-driver-at-large-after-vehicle-intentionally-plows-into-crowd-in-new-orleans-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:03:33","slug":"10-dead-30-injured-and-driver-at-large-after-vehicle-intentionally-plows-into-crowd-in-new-orleans-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/10-dead-30-injured-and-driver-at-large-after-vehicle-intentionally-plows-into-crowd-in-new-orleans-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"10 dead, 30 injured and driver at large after vehicle intentionally plows into crowd in New Orleans, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-01\/Untitled%20design%20-%202025-01-01T064546.490.png\" alt><figcaption>Carsten Rehder\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW ORLEANS , LA) &#8212; At least 10 people are dead and about 30 others are injured after a vehicle struck a crowd on Bourbon Street early on Wednesday, New Orleans police and city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The strike appeared to be intentional, police said ABC News, adding the driver had not been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The City of New Orleans, describing the event as a &#8220;mass casualty incident,&#8221; said the vehicle drove into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 30 injured patients that have been transported by NOEMS and 10 fatalities,&#8221; the city said, using an acronym for the New Orleans Emergency Medical Services.<\/p>\n<p>Police had not yet specified the total number of people who were injured or dead following the incident, which happened at about 3:15 a.m., according to ABC News affiliate WGNO.<\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans Police Department said it was &#8220;staffed 100%&#8221; for New Year&#8217;s Eve and the Sugar Bowl, a college football game played annually on New Year&#8217;s Day. An additional 300 officers were on duty from partner agencies, the force said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carsten Rehder\/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS , LA) &#8212; At least 10 people are dead and about 30 others are injured after a vehicle struck a crowd on Bourbon Street early on Wednesday, New Orleans police and city officials said. The strike appeared to be intentional, police said<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/10-dead-30-injured-and-driver-at-large-after-vehicle-intentionally-plows-into-crowd-in-new-orleans-officials-say\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}