KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & SportsUPDATE: Identities in tanker truck/minivan crash released

Around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, a tanker truck was reportedly traveling westbound on South Lakeshore Drive, when it didn't yield at a stop sign, and collided with a minivan, which was headed southbound on Highway 169.  The van went underneath the truck.

The 18-wheeler dragged the minivan with it into some nearby woods before coming to a stop.

The driver of the 18-wheeler, 36-year-old Travoski Kevonne Powell of Garland, TX, and two children, 6-year-old and a 7-year-old girls from the minivan, were taken by ambulance to LSU Hospital.  The driver of the minivan, 38-year-old Kellie Anthony of the Mooringsport area was airlifted to LSU Hospital. 

The 6-year-old was treated and released, Powell is being treated, and both Anthony and the 7-year-old are in ICU at LSU Hospital.

The tanker truck was carrying salt water, which was leaking and had to be off-loaded.  Since the truck and trailer slid off the roadway and is near Cross Lake, a Haz-Mat crew is on the scene now to ensure that if there is any leakage of salt water, that it doesn't flow into the lake.  Cross Lake is a man-made freshwater lake and Shreveport's main source of consumable water.

According to Caddo Sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick, a small amount of diesel fuel was also leaking from the truck.  Along with members of the Sheriff's Haz-Mat unit, officials with the state Department of Environmental Quality, and Department of Transportation and Development also responded to the scene.

KSLA News 12's Tracy Clemons will have a report coming up tonight on KSLA News 12 at 10.

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