A pickup truck driven into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early on New Year's Day 2025, killing 10 people. The FBI recovered an Islamic State flag from the vehicle. Bollards, designed to prevent vehicles from entering the pedestrian-heavy area, were in the process of being replaced and some were not engaged at the time of the attack.
A black flag with white lettering lies on the ground rolled up behind a pickup truck that a man drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans , killing and injuring a number of people, early Wednesday morning, Jan. 1, 2025. The FBI said they recovered an Islamic State group flag, which is black with white lettering, from the vehicle.
One day before New Year’s Eve, New Orleans officials issued a traffic advisory about its vehicle barrier replacement project, stating that crews would work until 2 p.m. on Monday and try to “minimize road closures as much as possible to reduce impacts” during the celebration. As vehicle attacks have increased globally in recent decades, cities around the world have installed bollards in pedestrian-heavy areas. Following the 9/11 attacks, New York City put up similar adjustable steel columns around Times Square, City Hall and Wall Street. They are also a common sight in London, Paris and Tokyo.
The barriers were “designed to mitigate against what we believe the risk is for pedestrians” in a part of the city he said was “an iconic or symbolic target,” Miller said in Dec. 2017. Wednesday’s rampage happened amid the ongoing “Bourbon Street Bollard Assessment and Replacement Project.”
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