Richard Billingsley, Jr., 18, killed by car while pushing disabled vehicle on La. 42 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana

An 18-year-old Prairieville resident, Richard Billingsley, Jr., was struck and killed by a vehicle as he was trying to help push a disabled SUV to the side of the road in Ascension Parish. The driver who hit him was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, Louisiana State Police said. They were driving on La. 42 west of La. 44 in Ascension Parish at about 11 p.m. when the SUV started having mechanical problems. He was arrested on suspicion of a variety of charges: DWI (second offense), vehicular homicide, vehicular negligent injuring, reckless operation, open container, speeding, and not wearing a seatbelt. Billingsley was in the passenger seat of a 2005 Mazda Tribute driven by 20-year-old Ambar Hicks of Prairieville, police said.

An 18-year-old Prairieville man was killed Tuesday when he was helping push a friend'€™s disabled car off a road and he was struck by a drunken driver, State Police said. Impairment is not believed to have been a factor on the part of either Hicks or Billingsley, Lee said. Bowers, 41, of Baton Rouge, who was traveling eastbound on the same road, failed to stop as he approached Billingsley and the disabled car, and hit the teenager, Lee said. Billingsley began pushing the car out of the road while Hicks steered it with her emergency flashing lights turned on, according to the report by Lee. A toxicology sample was taken from Hicks and submitted to the State Police crime lab.