BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – One person was charged after three people were hurt in a crash on Saturday, May 20.
Officials said Tylan Taylor, 21, of Prairieville was one of the drivers involved in an early morning crash on I-10 West.
The two-vehicle crash took place around 12:50 a.m. at milepost 165, according to investigators. A trooper with the Louisiana State Police interviewed witnesses who said that one car was moving “erratically” along the roadway. That vehicle which was driven by Taylor struck another vehicle “causing it to run off the right side of the roadway into the trees,” according to the affidavit.
Investigators said Taylor’s vehicle flipped and everyone in the vehicle was hurt. The trooper reported that Taylor’s eyes were “bloodshot and glassy.” The Prairieville man said he hit a car that he did not see while trying to change lanes on the interstate.
The affidavit stated that Taylor did not do well in field sobriety tests and did not submit to a breath test. A signed warrant was received and he was taken to a local hospital for a blood draw.
Taylor was arrested and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Saturday, May 20. He was charged with two counts of vehicular negligent injuring and one counts each of DWI first offense – with child endangerment, reckless operation of a vehicle and no insurance.
Bond was set at $18,600 and Taylor was released from prison on Sunday, May 21.