The steel bollards meant to keep vehicles off Bourbon Street were not in the ground on New Year’s Eve. New Orleans officials say the aging system was being replaced ahead of the Super Bowl — and the attacker drove around a police car on the sidewalk instead.
The New Year’s Day truck rampage in New Orleans was the deadliest vehicle attack in U.S. history, and it followed a pattern security experts have warned about for a decade: a rented vehicle, a crowded street and a target that cannot be fully hardened.
