"For truckers, that stretch of New Orleans East had become an asphalt Bermuda Triangle—a treacherous gantlet best avoided." —Patrick Radden Keefe for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/the-car-crash-conspiracy?src=longreads #truecrime #longreads #scam #louisiana
New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. Patrick Radden Keefe reports.

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