On January 1, 2026, around 7 p.m., Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop I responded to a two-vehicle fatal crash on Louisiana Highway 190 near Bryan Perrodin Loop on the parish line of Acadia and Evangeline Parishes less than a mile east of the Basile town limits. The crash claimed the life of 62-year-old David Doucet of Sulphur.
The preliminary investigation revealed that a 2001 Toyota Tu...
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