Oakdale girl dies in UTV crash, second child fatality within week in Central Louisiana
The wreck happened just after midnight on West River Road, south of La. Highway 462 in the Plainview community in Rapides Parish, reads a news release.
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Kyndal Vidrine was driving a Can-Am Outlander UTV north on West River Road, but she lost control and it ran off the road. It hit a parked Honda Foreman UTV, which caused her, a juvenile passenger and the driver of the Foreman to be ejected, it reads.
Vidrine was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The other two suffered minor injuries. Toxicology samples were taken from both drivers, but results are pending.
The crash, the second fatal offroad vehicle wreck involving juvenile drivers within a week in Central Louisiana, remains under investigation.
A 6-year-old passenger on an all-terrain vehicle was killed Wednesday in Alexandria when the 12-year-old driver ran a stop sign and hit a car at the intersection of Culpepper Road and North Boulevard. The wreck left the driver and a 10-year-old passenger in critical condition, while a 4-year-old passenger received minor injuries.
This article originally appeared on Alexandria Town Talk: Girl, 13, dies in UTV crash Sunday in Plainview community, 2 injured
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