Details surrounding Chad Jones accident remain murky

Published: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 12:00 PM

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 Robert Stewart, The Times-Picayune

Nobody is really sure what happened when former LSU athlete and current New York Giants safety Chad Jones got in a single-vehicle accident June 25 on North Carrollton Avenue -- not even the two passengers with him.

The passengers with Jones -- Robert Anthony Newman, 24, who lives in New Orleans, and Michael Mansion, 20, who lives in Atlanta -- were asleep right before the accident happened, according to an accident report filed by the New Orleans Police Department and obtained by The Times-Picayune on Friday. Mansion was in the front passenger's seat, and Newman was in the seat behind Mansion.

Jones was traveling east on North Carrollton when, for reasons unknown, he lost control of his 2010 Range Rover and hit a light pole in the median near Toulouse Street, totalling the vehicle and seriously injuring Jones' left leg. Newman and Mansion went to the hospital with Jones but were released after being treated for minor injuries.