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Man killed when tire flies off trailer, strikes car on Route 28; Driver (illegal) to be charged
WPXI ^ | November 21, 2014

Posted on 11/21/2014 3:10:02 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

SHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Investigators said one person is dead after a detached truck tire bounded across Route 28 Friday morning and smashed into an oncoming car.

Officials said the accident happened just before 11 a.m. near the Shaler Water Facility.

Channel 11’s Alan Jennings reported the tire came from a Ford F-450 with a tarp-covered trailer that was heading southbound on Route 28.

Channel 11’s Rick Earle has learned the victim’s car was driving north when the tire hopped over the jersey barrier and hit the driver’s side windshield.

A man was driving and his wife was in the back seat because she has a boot on her leg.

The Medical Examiner has identified the victim as 75-year-old Robert Lofink, of Gibsonia.

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Police said the driver of the truck -- identified as 23-year-old Eric Gonzales-Huerta, did not stay on the scene of the accident.

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Gonzales-Huerta did not have a valid driver's license and neither the truck nor the trailer was insured, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: illegal; immigration
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Not in the article, but in the local TV newscast it was revealed that the driver was in this country illegally from Mexico.
1 posted on 11/21/2014 3:10:02 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Mr Huerta ain't illegal anymore.

Sorry Mr Lofink, tough luck. You are one of the first eggs broken under Obama's new decree.

But you certainly won't be the last.

2 posted on 11/21/2014 3:13:37 PM PST by skeeter
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
0bama said there are no more illegals ... we're all Americans in the new republic dictatorship of 0bamarica.
3 posted on 11/21/2014 3:14:22 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
He was just trying to make take a better life for than himself.
4 posted on 11/21/2014 3:14:46 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Local news station leading with this story tonight. The illegals went back to look for their tire and were caught. More than one Mexican doing roofing work.


5 posted on 11/21/2014 3:16:03 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He was from Mexico and here illegally?

Obama would like the police to leave the poor guy alone.


6 posted on 11/21/2014 3:16:28 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Interesting that WPXI would reveal he's illegal. WTAE was careful not to mention whether he was legal or not.

Is he going to stay under Obama’s executive amnesty?

7 posted on 11/21/2014 3:16:49 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Obama sees no reason to deport him.


8 posted on 11/21/2014 3:18:22 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: SkyDancer

Obamexico.


9 posted on 11/21/2014 3:18:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Dunno -0bamarica has sort of flow to it .... 0bamexico? But then the stats say only about 13% of illegals are from there ... more are from India followed by China ....


10 posted on 11/21/2014 3:20:26 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The price of cheap laborers is too high but many American citizens and companies continue to hire illegals,just like millions of idiotic Americans support the Mexican drug cartels, and murdering in the womb 50% of the last three generations of Americans.

There ARE two Americas:one of responsible people and another of socialist hedonists.


11 posted on 11/21/2014 3:22:49 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

>>>Gonzales-Huerta did not have a valid driver’s license and neither the truck nor the trailer was insured, police said.<<<

I thought that in order to register a motor vehicle, it had to have the state minimum level of insurance. If and when that insurance lapsed, the insurance company would immediately notify the DMV, who in turn would alert the authorities who then would move to find it and get it off the road.

Maybe that’s not true in all states I guess.


12 posted on 11/21/2014 3:22:52 PM PST by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: skeeter

Obama will issue an Executive Order given Huerta immunity from prosecution by the white crackers of law enforcement and then, with Eric Holder, give him a pardon, a new truck, and a Social Security Card.

The first beneficiary of Obama’s new immigration policy (it is not a law).

Meanwhile back in Ferguson, MO, the Sons of Obama and DeBlasio are planning a house-warming party (known in proper English as a riot and arson).

He might be a lame duck but he still can fuck up this country.


13 posted on 11/21/2014 3:23:25 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Thousands of families have had loved ones raped, severely injured, or killed but Obama does’nt care about those families. He’s after the illegal alien votes forDemocrats.


14 posted on 11/21/2014 3:23:26 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

An ‘act of love.’


15 posted on 11/21/2014 3:24:33 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Indeed he can, and is.


16 posted on 11/21/2014 3:24:33 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Actually, he is Mr. Gonzalez. Huerta is the name of his mother. We can all him call Mr. Illegal Alien. Whenever I read a news story about a criminal with two Spanish last names they are illegal aliens 100% of the time.


17 posted on 11/21/2014 3:25:15 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Well, would ya look at that. An illegal driving a non-registered vehicle, happens to kill a legal resident driving a registered vehicle. He may be deported, but he’ll be in an American prison for a while, and get free medical care on the taxpayer’s dime with 3 meals a day to boot.


18 posted on 11/21/2014 3:29:12 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: SkyDancer

To paraphrase crazy old man McCain, “we’re all illegals now.”


19 posted on 11/21/2014 3:29:57 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In my years of driving I have seen tires/wheels crossing the highway a number of times from traffic on the other side. I have always been fortunate in being able to avoid them.


20 posted on 11/21/2014 3:30:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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