ARCADIA, La. (KSLA) – A man from Texas is dead after a fiery wreck in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana State Police reports.
On Monday (March 3) around 4:45 a.m., troopers responded to a wreck on Louisiana Highway 518 near Hoodtown Road. As a result of the wreck, 62-year-old Leonard Melton, of Troup, Texas, was killed.
LSP’s preliminary investigation shows Melton was driving a 2019 Ford F-150 east on LA 518 when, for reasons still under investigation, his truck veered off the road, hit an embankment and flipped. After the crash, the truck caught fire…