Posted on 10/20/2007 8:44:21 PM PDT by Ladycalif
California authorities are trying to determine the whereabouts of at least 9 drivers involved in the deadly I-5 tunnel crash.
Ten people injured in the crash were taken to area hospitals, another 10 escaped the flames uninjured, three others, including a 6 year old were killed in the crash. That totals 23 people, but the CHP says 31 vehicles were involved in the crash which leaves at least 9 drivers unaccounted for at this time.
Warren Stanley of the California Highway Patrol, "We have to identify all the vehicles and determine who they belong to and based on registration we can move forward to identify those drivers".
The CHP is hoping the missing drivers will come forward. They think those people might not have driver's licenses or could be illegal immigrants. The tunnel remains closed indefinitely which means more traffic on the southbound lanes of Interstate 5.
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I suggest that they look south of the border.
Typical: FR breaks news first, analyzes it better and faster.
Four day old story...... What’s the current status? Still missing those nine or more?
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Think about this. That part of the 5 is truck only. I am wondering what they found in those trucks.
Might be bigger that just illegal drivers - 9 missing seems like a lot.
Weird.
I get one to three a week that can’t speak a word of English. They have to be illegals, aside from the citizenship requirement for language proficiency, I can’t see issuing CDLs to people who can not read the federal regulations. They stop their trucks in between our building and the one behind us. The driver gets out and walks toward me, holding out a bill of lading at arm’s length so that I can read it for him and tell him yes or no. They’re Russian or Hispanic.
Some days I’m tempted to tell them I can’t read and see what they try to do next.
“The CHP is hoping the missing drivers will come forward. They think those people might not have driver’s licenses or could be illegal immigrants”
D U H !!
Whoa there! You must’ve been asleep for a number of years. In Texas, we publish the driver’s handbook in Spanish also and the test can be taken in Spanish, THAT’S how they get their TX DL. But that’s been going on for years.
Sometimes I wonder about our stupid government, both state and federal, yet they continually get reelected so stupid is as stupid does, right?
Cars can and do use that route. There were some cars in the tunnel that got burned up too.
Maybe they were in those trucks from Mexico that are ‘even safer than the US ones.’
I think I saw an episode or six like this on CHiPs as a child.
And... a nickels worth of opinion for someone who legally emigrated to Mexico, many times in Mexico, in an accident, people involved will RUN. The Napolonic Law of Justice, GUILTY until proven innocent, they’ll go to jail if anyone is physically hurt, until courts convene and they can declare innocence. Probably, someone who CAUSED the accident, had a lot to hide..and ran.
Rest in peace. What a terrible way to go, good grief.
Better get use to it...it’s very common in Mexico....
“They think those people might not have driver’s licenses or could be illegal immigrants.”
This looks like a job for Captain Obvious!
This is pretty scary if we assume that almost 1/3 of the truck drivers in this accident are basically irresponsible. Is this is typical of all California highways? The CHP has truck inspection stations on I-5 both north and southbound between the San Fernando and San Joaquin Valley. Does the CHP even bother to check the drivers for a valid license? Or, since it was reported some of the burnt trucks were carrying produce from the Salinas Valley, perhaps unlicensed or illegal drivers simply take a route that avoids established truck inspection stations. Given the carnage caused on California highways by trucks, perhaps the CHP needs to step up the enforcement and inspection of trucks at random locations on highways with a high volume of trucks.
But, applying the typical wisdom of bureaucrats, the CHP and CalTrans allows the trucks to share the auto lanes through a dangerous section of freeway, even during rush hour. And they do this with good reason to believe that 1 out of every 3 or 4 trucks has a driver that would leave the scene of an accident for whatever reason.
This is nothing new. There have been French-Canadians who speak no English driving trucks on our roads for decades.
In New England, you'll commonly see grade warnings and brake-check pullouts that are sign-posted in French.
-ccm
Maybe they were terrorists with car or truck bombs?
Unless the 6-year old girl was driving, I suggest they start looking for 10 people.
RUNNING--Yes, it is their culture. Hundreds of thousands of US citizen drivers, hit by some illegal, have personally witnessed this. All you have is a description: Hispanic male, 5-6 to 5-8, 150-180, black and brown (Which describes hundreds of thousands of Hispanics in Southern California)
The CHP checks for licenses at the scales. BUT, the driver can present a license from out-of-state OR A Mexican License (Which you CAN NOT verify electronically).
The Scales is a busy place, and running licenses takes time.
Another secret: The CHP doesn’t want to be charged with that awful sin: Profiling.
CHP looking for missing drivers from I-5 truck accident...
look in mexico!!!!
If that’s the case, it is time for some really big lawsuits against L.A. and CA. I had a sweetheart in Santa Clarita and used that truck road all the time. There is a Law firm in Calabasas that will screw L.A. into the third world toilet with justifiable cause. I almost got killed by an illegal alian that ran a red light in Canoga Park. I screwed them really hard.
The driver’s license is one thing. The states control the standards for it. The CDL is federally controlled and the driver has to be able to keep up with the regulatory environment. IIRC, the test is given in English only.
That actually makes some sense, as there is a legitimate reason for French speaking Canadians to be there. My family had a house on Cape Cod; there were always plenty of tourists from Quebec.
It would also make sense to see this in border states. We trade with Mexico. Someone has to truck the goods across the border.
I’m talking about Palm Beach County, Florida. How do these drivers not understand anything in English? They speak Russian and Spanish. It’s not like they drove the stuff over from Havana or Moscow. They picked it up in Ohio.
Check the car VINs against the used car dealers who sell to illegals without licenses.
From someone who trucks for a living....There is such a crisis in the trucking industry for lack of qualified drivers that companies are going to foreign countries to recruit. Then there are the fly by night training schools that ‘assist’ those illiterate and frequently alien students to obtain their CDL. After a few months to a year on the road these poorly prepared students become disillusioned with the job and quit, thus promoting the churning that the industry is saddled with. The Feds and States have allowed the rules to be bent to permit non-English speakers to be behind the wheel. Despite our protests, big business and the states have steamrolled their interests over the laws that don’t suit them. Freight must be moved and they don’t care who moves it. With so many of us older guys out here getting closer and closer to retirement, there is going to be a very significant crunch in the trucking industry and at your dinner table, store shelves, and factories as companies are unable to guarantee a delivery time or date due to their inability to find drivers to replace us.
31 - 23 = 8 by my math.
Wasn't one of the 23 a 6-year-old, i.e., not a driver?
My condolences for your injury. But pray tell, what is the "justifiable cause" that allowed you to "screw" your fellow citizens for money because of the poor driving of an illegal alien?
-ccm
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