Updated: 5:31 AM CDT May 17, 2021
METAIRIE, La. Authorities say two people are dead after a car crashed into a canal in Metairie late Sunday evening.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said deputies were dispatched to reports of a car in the canal around 11:20 p.m. near West Esplanade Avenue and Academy Drive. Two people were found inside the vehicle and were later pronounced dead at the scene.
Lopinto said the crash appears to be a single-vehicle crash in which the car left the roadway “for reasons that are not known at this time.”
The sheriff’s office did not identify either individual.
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