Gabrielle Breaux; Pregnant Woman Killed After Truck Runs Over Alligator On South Texas Highway

Gabrielle Breaux, In rural Texas, a pregnant woman from Louisiana was killed and her family was hurt when the pickup truck she was driving hit a 12-foot alligator and flipped over several times.

Gabrielle Breaux, who is 33 years old, was driving from Texas to her home in New Iberia, Louisiana, which is 20 miles south of Lafayette, when the accident happened early on Sunday morning.

The woman working at the car wash was seven months pregnant and with her father, Gregory Gerard, 58, and three of her children, ages 13, 11, and 6. Breaux was driving a Chevy Silverado pickup truck in the small town of Tivoli just before 4 a.m. when it hit the alligator on the road. Because of the accident, she and her future child both died.

The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Sgt. Rob Mallory said that the frail “hit an alligator that was crossing the road.” The animal died, and the truck went off the road, flipped over, and stopped on its back. They took the five people in the van to the hospital. Breaux was taken to the DeTar Hospital in Victoria, which is about 40 miles from where the accident happened. There, she died from her injuries.

The people at the hospital tried to save her baby, but they couldn’t. Breaux’s mother, Rena Hebert, confirmed the sad news and said that she would take care of the three kids. “My daughter Gabrielle Breaux was coming back from Texas with her father and three children when she hit a huge alligator on the highway, causing the truck to flip over several times,” she wrote on Facebook.

“Both my beautiful Gabbi and her baby died.”Her other children have serious cuts, stitches, and swelling, but their injuries are not life-threatening. She also said, “R.I.P., my beautiful Gabbi. Mom loves you, and I’ll take good care of your babies and my grandchildren.” A park worker in Victoria County, Jared Lewis, told the Victoria Advocate that alligators can be seen along roads because they are looking for water. Lewis, who has caught and moved alligators from roads before, said that when an alligator is found, the county ranger or sheriff’s office should be called.