Posted on 04/19/2006 8:15:37 AM PDT by Full Court
Expectant mom dies in collision
A 27-year-old expectant mother died in a head-on collision Sunday on U.S. 31 in Shelby County, authorities said.
Sarah Porter, 27, of Jemison died in the 11:20 a.m. accident, said Sgt. Tim Sartain, Alabama State Troopers spokesman. She was six months pregnant, said Doug Ballard Jr., Shelby County coroner.
Her husband, 29-year-old Heath Porter, remained in critical condition at UAB Hospital Sunday night, said Bob Shepherd, hospital spokesman.
Marco Guarviola, 26, address unknown, a passenger in the 2003 Chevrolet pickup truck that collided with the Porters' 2002 Volkswagen, was also taken to UAB Hospital, where he was listed as critical Sunday night, Shepherd said.
Manuel Valdez, 22, address unknown, who was also in the truck, was taken to Princeton Baptist Medical Center. Efforts to reach a hospital spokesman Sunday night were unsuccessful.
The accident, which occurred in the Saginaw community just south of Alabaster, is under investigation, Sartain said. He declined to provide details.
Several serious accidents have occurred at the site, Sartain said.
"I don't understand why so many accidents have occurred at this particular location," Sartain said. "Traffic is moderately heavy, but the street is a straight, two-lane stretch."
Accident fatalities are always sad, Sartain said.
"But this happening on Easter Sunday is such a tragedy," he said.
E-mail: kbryan@bhamnews.com
You don't know they were Mexican or illegal either.
You keep saying that. That it is a logical imponderability is obviously lost on you.
If she'd dropped her keys on the way to the car and delayed her trip by another ten seconds, she'd still be alive.
If the other driver hadn't stopped at Taco Bell and gotten the extra large diet coke and been five minutes further down the road, she'd still be alive.
If a certain teenager last week in an uninvolved car miles away had been distracted by a phonecall from her boyfriend at just the right moment, she'd have died last week in a t-bone accident instead of this week in a head-on.
If my aunt had cajones... she'd be my uncle.
None of the other activities you listed are AGAINST THE LAW.
Since when did this disrespect for the law and our Constitution spring up on Freerepublic?
How do you drive legally without your license on your person, which has your address on it?
Babe, I'm a tenth generation descendant of a man who arrived here in 1725 and was given a land grant in NC by Lord Granville.
My kin have served in every war fought by this country.
Oh jeesh. You said "illegal", not "undocumented".
Nice try.
My person does not have my address on it. Call your editor.
That said, do you really believe that driving without a license means a person is an illegal immigrant?
You're jumping to conclusions.
Now, now, be fair. We CAN verify that it was Easter Sunday!
Oh! You must have found a source! You are once again asserting that the drivers are illegal Mexican immigrants.
Source???
LOL... What...?
Good grief... that's funny. It's like talking to a random word generator. You don't actually read what other people write, do you... you have posts all composed in advance and just paste them in...? Or do you just open a dictionary, point to a word, and figure out how to work it in to your next post?
I may have to experiment a little and see if I can get back something predictable or even comprehensible.
I'll see your Lord Granville and raise you a Virginia land grant by the king. Late 1600s.
Unless you want to count my American Indian ancestors.
'course that's undocumented.
I've been asking Full Court for that information for almost 24 hours now. She's the one that posted that they were illegal Mexican immigrants in the first place, so the burden is on ~her~ to back it up.
My ancestors were Vikings. They were undocumented pretty much everywhere, except here. :-P
But we got here first, so neener neener neener.
*snort*
Maybe it's not her fault. Maybe she's never actually *met* a person with a hispanic surname that wasn't illegal. Maybe she's never heard of Carlos Santana. Me... I never really believed that Emilio Estevez looked hispanic anyway... but you never really know for sure...
It's this mat, see... and it has different... ~conclusions~ on it...
Hello Corin Stormhands! Your Ron Mexico name, the ultimate disguise, is Jan Equatorial Guinea.
What we "bristled" at was the undocumented assertion that they 1) were illegal and 2) were Mexican.
The assumptions were presented as facts.
If the requested documentation (yet non-existent) had been provided, this thread would have been over yesterday.
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