WEST BATON ROUGE- A fatal crash Thursday evening in West Baton Rouge Parish is renewing focus on the role cable barriers play in improving safety on Louisiana highways.
Troopers with Louisiana State Police said an 18-wheeler traveling eastbound on Interstate 10 left the roadway, rolled through the median, crossed the westbound lanes and crashed into a ditch. The driver died at the scene.
For more than 15 years, the National Transportation Safety Board has encouraged states to install barriers along roadways where high-speed traffic moves in opposite directions…