Car Accidents in Shreveport, LA

Shreveport Police work crashes inside the city limits and the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office covers the parish outside them, while Louisiana State Police often handles I-20 and I-49 — three agencies on roads that are minutes apart, and only one of them wrote your report. Check the paperwork from the scene for the agency name and the report number. Start there.

The 1st Judicial District Court, which sits in Caddo Parish. Injury suits in Louisiana are delictual actions — the civil-law term for what other states call a tort — and one filed over a crash inside Shreveport generally goes there, while a wreck across the Red River belongs to Bossier Parish and the 26th. An attorney makes that call.

Depends where on the bridge. The Red River is the parish line, so a crash on the Texas Street Bridge or the I-20 span can land in Caddo Parish or in Bossier Parish depending on which half of the water you were over when it happened, and that one fact decides which courthouse your suit belongs in. The report usually says. An attorney checks it anyway.

In Louisiana, the deadline is generally 2 years from the date of the accident. 'Prescriptive period' 2 years as of 2024-07-01 (was 1 year — a major recent change). Uses civil-law terminology. Deadlines are strict — the sooner you act, the more options you have.