Iberia Parish Sheriff's officials say that it is likely that a medical issue was part of the reason a woman drove her SUV into southbound traffic on Center Street just before 6 o'clock last night.

The two juveniles in her car were taken to the hospital. The one adult and two juveniles in the other SUV were taken to the hospital.

The driver of a third car, that hit the back of the second SUV was treated at the scene of the crash and was able to walk away.

Iberia Parish Sheriff's Major Wendell Raborn says that witnesses indicated that there might have been some sort of medical issues that was part of the reason for the fatal crash.

Raborn says 61-year-old Pamela Morgeman of New Iberia was pronounced dead at the scene of this traffic crash.

The Sheriff's Office says an autopsy will be done on Morgeman to find out if a medical problem lead to the crash.

 

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