It looks innocent enough, but drivers say a small stretch of Highway 90 on the westbank is lethal.
The packed roadway has been the scene of nearly 800 accidents, four of which were fatal, in the just the last four years.
'I didn't even see him really. I was just traveling like I said, I had the right of way I guess, I don't know,' Bonnie Gambino said recalling an accident she was involved in on the perilous stretch.
Gambino's accident was just one of many on a somewhat desolate stretch of Highway 90, a hazardous section of road that's only six miles long.
The part of Highway 90 in question goes from Live Oak Blvd. just past Waggaman to Willowdale Blvd. heading into Boutte.
There are only a few houses and businesses and no traffic signals. But it's plenty busy, and since the storm, plenty dangerous.
Why is it so busy?
Within the one section there are two huge landfills, a marina, and a couple of Corps of Engineers levee projects, so most of the vehicles on that roadway are trucks.
'They don't get out of the way, they don't respect you, they'll pull out in front of you, it's just terrible,' Mike Adams said.
Adams works at Jake's Tow Service on Highway 90.
He says the problem is that there are plenty of openings to make a turn or a U-turn, but no actual turning lane from which to do so.
If you're stopped to make a turn and waiting for oncoming traffic, you're a sitting target for cars or trucks barreling down on you at the posted 55 mile an hour speed limit, with many going much faster.
Adams says he puts his blinker on a quarter of a mile away, and sometimes that's not enough.
'If I see anything behind me, close behind me, and I see I can't make a turn real quick, I pull on the side of the road,' he said. 'Sometimes I wait on the side of the road, two or three minutes before I can actually turn into the yard here.'
People who drive this highway everyday say because there are no turning lanes, when there are accidents, it's because someone usually runs into the back of some else.
Surprisingly it's not necessarily the car right behind the person making the turn that causes the accident.
Most of the complaints are about trucks - many of them from out of state.
Tiffany Bealer often drives in from the Luling area, and says she's been run off the road twice by trucks.
'You know I was visible,' she said. 'He could see me, well I'm not even, I'd say 50 yards. Well he pulls out onto Highway 90 and runs me off the road and then he flips me the bird. I have the right away.'
Bealer says cars and trucks constantly speed through this area. Jake's even has an old police car that is sometimes parks near the end of the parking lot and it's clear people see it.
'And you'll see them coming, and they'll slow down a bit' Bealer said.
And the trucks, hauling dirt and debris to the levee projects and landfills have brake lights and turn signals that sometimes are barely visible.
Bonnie Gambino's accident was with a trash truck contracted to Jefferson Parish coming out of the parish landfill.
The parish says it asked the state years ago for a traffic light at the landfill to avoid such collisions, but the State Department of Transportation says it's not needed.
As for the nearly 800 accidents over the last four years, DODT says that's not extreme, because more than 25,000 vehicles use it every day.
But the state is taking minimal steps to make it safer.
It plans to remove at least eight of the left or U-turn openings here. This will force most of the traffic to go to a light or a turning lane and thus will avoid some of the 'sitting duck' syndrome that now exists.
