(9 Jan 2025)
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New Orleans – 9 January 2025
1. Close up of Bourbon Street sign
2. Close up of flowers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Bart, Personal Injury Attorney:
"We’ve sued Mott McDonald, who was a major New Orleans contractor and has been since 2017. We’ve sued Hard Rock Construction, who is the company Mott MacDonald chose to do the construction work and then of course we’ve sued the city."
4. Wide of street wedge
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Bart, Personal Injury Attorney:
"And in 2017 they end up spending 40 million dollars for the consulting and for the equipment that Mott McDonald recommends. They get bollards. They get street wedges. They get archers to go on the sidewalks to prevent this type of vehicle attack from occurring."
6. Various of street wedges and archers
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Bart, Personal Injury Attorney:
"And we want to put these upgrades in to prevent a hypothetical; a hypothetical terrorist attack. Very eerie because eight months later that’s exactly what occurred is that scenario they were talking about."
8. Close up of diagram done by Mott McDonald
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Bart, Personal Injury Attorney:
"Now we’re November 2024, they come in and they remove the bollards but they don’t put anything back in on an interim basis, nothing. Now Bourbon Street is completely exposed."
10. Various of archers, Bourbon Street
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Bart, Personal Injury Attorney:
"If these steps had been taken I feel that it would have prevented all of the injuries and deaths in the second and third block of Bourbon Street."
12. Wide of memorial
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Morris Bart, Personal Injury Attorney:
"I love New Orleans. I love the culture of New Orleans and it’s my hope that a lawsuit like this will get the attention of the right leaders and companies that work in New Orleans and we will make it safe."
14. Various of memorial on Canal Street
STORYLINE:
Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack are suing the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers from an Army veteran who sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon Street.
The attack killed 14 people and injured at least 30.
Lawyers claim the city and its contractors ignored warnings of a vehicle threat and failed to implement an effective system for deterring such an attack.
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