26 years later, advocates still hope for bus crash memorial in City Park

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — Darrell Mathieu remembers how he found out.

“I was working when I received a page from my wife telling me there was an emergency,” Mathieu recalls of that morning on May 9, 1999, when a tour bus veered of I-610 and crashed.

The bus was taking a group of people to the Mississippi coast for a day of gambling and fun. Mathieu’s mother was on board…

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