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To: WestCoastGal; NormsRevenge; steveegg; NYTexan; SouthTexas; tubebender; All

I guess they went south to I-10 to avoid the weather.



A spokesman for Roush Racing confirmed Wednesday that the transporter for its No. 6 Nextel Cup team was involved in a multivehicle wreck with injuries on its way back to Concord for a test at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The crash happened in Sierra Blanca, Texas, about 85 miles east of El Paso, just after 11 a.m. Eastern time, Border Patrol officials told television station KVIA.

According to a story posted on the KVIA.com website, the crash happened at mile marker 102 on Interstate 10 near a Border Patrol checkpoint.


922 posted on 01/31/2007 1:35:43 PM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: Pete-R-Bilt

ping and more on this story.........

According to Border Patrol officials at the checkpoint, the hauler struck a motor home, which then struck another 18-wheeler, that then struck a second tractor-trailer.

Jesse Bear, a truck driver who witnessed the scene, told ABC-7 TV in El Paso the tractor-trailer struck a motorhome in the rear. Bear added there were "a few other vehicles in the wreck, but everything was crushed together."

According to ABC-7 reporter Darren Hunt, the front part of the rig's cab was completely torn off.

Emergency radio transmissions indicated that at least one person was rushed to Thomason Hospital with serious injuries. Emergency officials add there were three other persons transported to local hospitals. Emergency crews with Culberson and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and the city of Fort Hancock, Texas, all responded to the scene of the accident.

The hauler was only transporting the No. 6 racecar. Driver David Ragan was not involved in the wreck.




I heard elsewhere that the hauler driver was in surgery, no news yet.


923 posted on 01/31/2007 1:44:05 PM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: WestCoastGal

Don't know if they cleared the weather running on 10. Some 280 miles(?) were closed last week or the week before due to ice. Has still been ice and snow in the forecasts.


925 posted on 01/31/2007 3:13:00 PM PST by SouthTexas (It's snowing in Texas, where is OUR global warming?)
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