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
Strawman, no one claimed that was the case. Try again later.
When thinking about it last night, I mused about the vitriolic hatred that some people have against immigrants of one group or another, legal or illegal.
And I reminded myself that when praying for the father in this story, the two other men were badly injured and their lives might be on the line, too. All three of these men deserve our prayers for recovery.
No one deserves to die in an accident, be it an automobile or otherwise. Accidents are tragic.
At least not since you had your original headline edited...
Ah, another attempt by one of you to try and smear a Freeper with racism where NONE exist.
For that shallow and heinous post, I will no longer take you or anything you say seriously.
You "telling me" something does not count as evidence, Full Court. What's amazing is that no one else heard these revealing details or can find anything to back them up.
It's almost as if you pulled it out of thin air.
I believe she "ignores in your general direction..."
When you were praying, did you ask forgiveness for the sin of falsely accusing people of hatred?
Well, there was that incident with the dragon...
Fine, don't believe it.
I now know that to you it wouldn't matter anyway.
You are not here because you care about Americans.
Dude, she thinks I'm heinous! All right! < /Bill&Ted >
I can't be ignored, I'm heinous.
How about the sheetrocking incident? Mildly naughty, at least, no0t sure it rated heinous... I'll have to ask Talon...
playing that trump card again I see...
OH... you came for an argument? Sorry, this is Abuse. Arguments are down the hall, two doors on the right.
Well, perhaps if you used day laborers to hang the sheetrock.
But that just ain't right...
But...but...you were the one that added "Mexican immigrant" to the headline in the first place!
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Let the pointing and laughing begin.
And reporting that nationality makes it about race how?
Do you have some kind of racial issues hang up?
I dunno... using a tragic accident to hijack for the purpose of trying to stir up hatred against people based on their country of origin seems pretty heinous to me.
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