BATON ROUGE – Officials said a 54-year-old man was drunk driving in the wrong lane on I-110 when he crashed into Darrell Batiste on July 4.
Michael Young, the driver, died, but Batiste is still fighting for his life.
“He has 6 broken ribs, a broken tibia in one leg and a broken ankle in the other leg, and also his spine is really inflamed and really bruised up and really battered. He has had a neck brace on the whole time he has been there. He had collapsed lungs on the way to the hospital, and his heart stopped on the way, too,” his younger brother Javion Batiste said, describing his condition…