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
Unless the wreck was caused by the poor woman who died.
Then, it wouldn't have mattered who the other driver was.
Oh so securing the borders means their will be no more automobile accidents? Call the White House!
You have entirely missed RMD's point.
Methinks "Full Court" is not playing with a "Full Deck."
I can barely see with all of the straw men in here.
Knock it off.
You can wallow in your hatred all you want, but the rest of us don't have to play along. I would recommend taking a breath before you start lashing out at your fellow freepers. The enemy isn't here... unless it is to just disrupt and hijack every single cotton-pickin' thread into immigration based on nothing but hispanic sounding names.
Please try to be a little less shallow.
Please, do yourself a favor and stop lying.
You don't know me and all you are doing is making yourself look very stupid.
Once again, and i have posted this to you about 5 times now, one of the MAIN POINTS about this story is that the LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA left out pertinent details that were reported from other sources.
And you seem to be ok with that and rather than deal with what is real here, you have claimed I was a racist, and said other things about me that are not true.
YOU therefore have no credibility.
Headlines should remain un change but I think a parenthetical statement is OK but it should be placed at the end. Freeper etiquette 101.
Why would your rates go up if you are not at fault? My husband and I were not at fault in two collisions we've been in over the years, and nothing happened to our rates. In the first case the driver was insured; in the second he was not.
I don't know you, and you don't know me, so please do not make any more false posts about me. I take it very seriously when people like you create fiction about a poster they do not know.
It harms FR, and it's reputation.
Keeps your lies to yourself.
This thread will (Most likely) be nuked in 5...4...3...2...
It means that Mrs. Porter and her baby would still be alive.
And that matters to me.
*shakes head*
Oh no, my friend. You are very mistaken.
You've done more to discredit yourself than anything I could have ever said or done.
My credibility is not in question. Well, except maybe to you.
And I consider that no great loss considering the source.
Have a nice day!
Sure thing, but usually you can find the basis for the parenthetical statement within the article.
Not the case here.
"The Birmingham news is famous for not covering any news relating to illegals, or trying to put a spin on it. They are very pro illegals."
So, since the newspaper is so fond of illegals, and the subsequent disenfranchisement of LEGAL U.S. citizens, I vote to disband the newspaper...
You know what? Not only was that uncalled for, it is absolutely stupid. Embarassingly stupid actually. I would apologize for that piece of idiocy if I were you, and not just to the person you wrote it to, but to all of Freeperdom, for making a jackass out of yourself, when you are probably a good person otherwise. You need to calm down and think before you post.
You are correct. It is actually shattered in my opinion.
You have falsley claimed I hated people and that I was a racist.
My black daughter thanks you.
So do the black members of my family.
The way you throw the word "black" around reminds me of the folks who say "My best friend is black" to prove they aren't a bigot.
It's irrelevant to me what color your family members are.
They should just be glad they aren't Mexican. :-)
But, didn't you call her a bigot?
You've been doing this about RMDupree all the way thru the thread. Your hypocrisy is showing.
Cynical interests -- including political and business -- have worked to frustrate the will of most Americans that our laws be enforced and our borders be secured. Those interests have virtually ~welcomed~ a flood of illegals, with their attendant social costs such as a high rate of impaired and unsafe driving without insurance.
You are correct that innocent Hispanic people suffer from the rage of Americans at this state of affairs. A furious public does not typically respond in a very nuanced way.
My suggestion would be that you direct some of your concern at the politicians responsible for the flood of illegals rather than people who are p.o.'d about it all and don't necessarily wait for the justice system or detailed media accounts before reacting. (The media and the justice system, of course, will not pursue the truth so we'd be waiting until hell froze over.)
Someone called me a racist, someone said I hated Mexicans.
I have a black foster daughter. I will not allow people to malign my character based on THEIR bigoted remarks.
You should find the person who started with the filthy hateful attacks and reprimand them.
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