Jody’s Law goes into effect Aug. 1, strengthening Louisiana’s hit-and-run law

BATON ROUGE – Back in March of last year, 20-year-old Jody Mann was struck in a hit-and-run crash on Reinninger Road in Denham Springs. She died in the hospital the following month.

“I take it moment by moment. Some moments are a lot harder than others, and you know some moments are just kind of coasting through,” Mann’s mother, Holly Crow, said.

But Crow has never stopped fighting for her daughter. At the beginning of this year, she began working with State Representative Vanessa Lafleur…

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