On Monday afternoon, Aaron Touchet was driving southwest on Louisiana Highway 77, making calls for his HVAC business.

He continued through the intersection at Enterprise Boulevard, only a two-way stop, when another driver collided with the front of his truck and slammed Touchet into a ditch.

“It’s absolutely insane,” Gracie Romero, Touchet’s fiancée, said. “There’s a pretty substantial curve right before, coming from the opposite direction he was going, that you can’t even see if somebody is coming. I think that is absurd.”

Touchet is currently in the hospital with a torn spleen and will be unable to work for at least a month, Romero said.

Meanwhile, Romero, Iberville Sheriff Brett Stassi, State Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter and State Rep. Chad Brown are all calling for immediate safety improv

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