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Couple wants more changes to LA 1 after truck hits homes

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Larose, La. - Arnic Sevin keeps an album dating back to 1956.  That's the first time a car swerved off LA 1 and into her yard.

The vehicles changed through the years but Sevin says the problem never did.

She has pictures of wreck, nearly three dozen crashes through the years ending with wreck number 36 in June.

This time, a tractor-trailer clipped the corner of her house and slammed into the home next door.

No one was hurt in the early morning crash but the Sevins spent thousands repairing their home.

Their next-door neighbor hasn't returned.

"It's kind of getting old because you don't know what time of day or night somebody's going to run in your house and come kill us and kill themselves too," she says.

Sevin began writing letters to the state in the 1970s, asking for caution lights at the curve where LA 1 meets Old LA 1.

She says there used to be a flashing light in the neutral ground but a truck knocked it down decades ago.

There is a caution light warning drivers of the upcoming curve but Sevin thinks it's too far back to do any good.

She'd like to see rumble strips warning drivers as they approach the curve.

Engineers with the Department of Transportation and Development studied the curve after the June crash and they do plan to make some improvements here.

Signs will be added and the striping enhanced so drivers can easily see the lanes.

The driver who wrecked in June told Louisiana State Police he didn't see the curve and couldn't slow down in time.

Troopers say no one should have a problem making the turn if they're going the speed limit.

Sevin hopes the 36th wreck is the last one she'll see.

She has no plans to move.

"Our roots are right here so we plan to stay unless they do to my house like my neighbor's house," she says.

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