NEW ORLEANS, LA : Driver arrested after head-on crash kills Raceland man on Thursday, 28th December 2023

Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop B are investigating a two-vehicle crash in LaPlace that killed a 71-year-old man from Raceland.

Troopers say that 71-year-old Earl Eschete was driving a 2000 Ford F-150 south on Highway 61 near Jackson Avenue, simultaneously as 23-year-old Gasper Orduna of Alvin, Texas was driving a 2019 Ford F-250 north on Highway 61. Orduna subsequently crossed the center line into the southbound lane where his truck hit Eschete's truck head-on.


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