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		</div><p>Two people have been killed and six injured after being struck by a vehicle on a busy New Orleans street on Saturday evening, authorities said.</p>
<p>Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson told local media that a suspect is in custody following the incident that happened at about 8pm local time along Esplanade Avenue.</p>
<p>Mr Ferguson said the suspect is being tested to determine whether he was intoxicated. His identity was not released.</p>
<p>The police chief said bystanders in the area were the ones who stopped the driver.</p>
<figure id="attachment_127089" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-127089" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/57DC4999-464A-4BF9-9121-DC220FA306EF.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-127089" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/57DC4999-464A-4BF9-9121-DC220FA306EF.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="412" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-127089" class="wp-caption-text">New Orleans Police examine a Chevy Camaro on Esplanade Avenue</figcaption></figure>
<p>“We were able to apprehend the subject so quickly because citizens stopped this individual, because they thought they were helping someone who had just been involved in a one-car accident,” Mr Ferguson said.</p>
<p>EMS spokesman Jonathan Fourcade said a man and a woman — both about 30 years old — were killed. The injured ranged in age from 28 to 65.</p>
<p>Five of the injured were taken to the hospital while one refused treatment, Mr Fourcade said.</p>
<p>Photographs of the scene showed mangled bikes along the side of the street.</p>
<p>One onlooker, Dane Barrymore, told The New Orleans Advocate that he was smoking a cigarette outside a market when he saw a dark sports car speeding down the street.</p>
<p>The driver swerved into the bike lane to try to go around a vehicle.</p>
<p>“It just happened there were people there – bicyclists,” Mr Barrymore said. He said he saw two women and one man get struck.</p>
<p>He said he went to help but it quickly became apparent that one of the women and the man did not survive.</p>
<p>The vehicle sped off down the block, hit another vehicle and then spun out into the central reservation, Mr Barrymore told the newspaper.</p>
<p>The incident happened not far from the Endymion parade, one of the city’s biggest Mardi Gras parades.</p>
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