Tractor-trailer crashes into girls' bedroom

Two little girls, who apparently couldn't sleep, got out of the bed they shared less than a half-hour before a tractor-trailer plowed through their bedroom.

Cori Morgan, 7, and her sister, Shadia, 3, had left their bedroom for the living room just before the 4:30 a.m. crash, said Cerrisa Moore, whose mother owns the house.

The girls' parents, Cody Batiste and Sally Morgan, both are deaf. "When it happened, I just thought it was the rain," Batiste said through sign language interpreter Phyllis St. Cyr.

"There was a big noise, and I was puzzled," Batiste said. "Cori looked around and said the bedroom was all messed up."

Willie Edwards, a trucker for Edwards Transport of Houston, was cited for reckless driving, said Cpl. Mark Francis of the Lafayette Police Department. Before hitting the house, Edwards hit a light pole and a traffic control box. He was treated for minor injuries. Article here.