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What We Know About the Deadly Crash in California
New York Times ^ | 2 March 2021 - Update 8 March 2021 | Christine Hauser, Sarah Bahr, Miriam Jordan and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Posted on 04/15/2021 11:29:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java


25 people were crammed into this SUV

The authorities in Southern California were called to the scene of a devastating crash along a state highway early Tuesday morning, finding a dozen people dead, some of whom had been thrown from an S.U.V. from the force of a collision with a tractor-trailer. They found injured survivors wandering the site, and one victim died later at a hospital.

Hours later, as helicopter footage showed the wreckage of the S.U.V. almost wrapped around the front of the truck, officials began to outline an account of what happened. On Wednesday, U.S. Border Patrol officials said the 13 people who died in the crash were among 44 migrants apparently smuggled through a large breach in the border wall into California’s Imperial Valley before dawn on Tuesday.

Here’s what we know so far

What Happened?

Surveillance footage reviewed by the Border Patrol showed two vehicles — a red Chevrolet Suburban and a maroon Ford Expedition S.U.V. — traveling near a 10-foot gap in the 18-foot-high steel bollard border fence early Tuesday. The Suburban apparently burst into flames after crossing through the fence. The Ford Expedition continued.

Shortly after 6 a.m. local time, the S.U.V. and a tractor-trailer collided on a California highway, State Route 115, on the outskirts of Holtville, Calif., about 40 miles west of the Arizona border and about 12 miles from the border with Mexico. The truck was heading north on the highway when the S.U.V., traveling west, pulled in front of the truck at an intersection, officials said.

There were 25 people inside the S.U.V., Omar Watson, the chief of the California Highway Patrol’s border division, said at a news conference. When emergency crews arrived at the scene, they found 12 people dead.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: illegals; oldnews
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1 posted on 04/15/2021 11:29:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java

25 people eh?

Was it Archie, Jughead and the gang at the malt shop going for some new Guinness record ?


2 posted on 04/15/2021 11:31:28 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: COBOL2Java

Isn’t this news from several weeks ago?


3 posted on 04/15/2021 11:32:17 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: COBOL2Java

Chamber of Commerce says this is simply the cost of doing business. Move along....


4 posted on 04/15/2021 11:33:02 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: PGR88

No, it was Fraud Biden adding to the total death count from his actions or inactions at the southern border.


5 posted on 04/15/2021 11:33:29 AM PDT by Misplaced Texan
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To: COBOL2Java

Six week old “NEWS”...when news breaks, Freepers fix it!


6 posted on 04/15/2021 11:34:15 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: COBOL2Java

Is the truck driver OK?


7 posted on 04/15/2021 11:36:35 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Guenevere
Isn’t this news from several weeks ago?

My apologies, if this was posted elsewhere, let me know and I'll have the post removed.

8 posted on 04/15/2021 11:40:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The avg 911 response time is 23 mins; the response time of a .357 is 1400 ft/sec)
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To: COBOL2Java

illegals literally dying sneaking in and no one in the Biden administration gives a rats ass.


9 posted on 04/15/2021 11:40:31 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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illegals literally dying sneaking in and no one in the Biden administration gives a rats ass.

Madame Vice President, please pick up the white courtesy phone...

10 posted on 04/15/2021 11:41:34 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The avg 911 response time is 23 mins; the response time of a .357 is 1400 ft/sec)
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...The Suburban apparently burst into flames after crossing through the fence...

This little one-sentence tidbit is the most curious part of the whole story.

Should I be on the lookout for flaming Suburbans in my daily routine?

Is there something about the border fence that causes this?

11 posted on 04/15/2021 11:42:38 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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dead or alive.. as long as they are registered to vote thats all democrats care.

dead people don’t put up as much of a fight when it comes to someone voting for them.


12 posted on 04/15/2021 11:51:59 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: COBOL2Java

This one collision is costing the tax payers of CA tens of millions.


13 posted on 04/15/2021 11:52:16 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: COBOL2Java

My heart goes out to that trucker those invaders not so much


14 posted on 04/15/2021 11:54:31 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: COBOL2Java

Illegal

Aliens

That’s the story.


15 posted on 04/15/2021 11:58:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: COBOL2Java

25?? What were they from a Mexican clown car team?


16 posted on 04/15/2021 11:59:15 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: dragnet2
This one collision is costing the tax payers of CA tens of millions.

How's that?  thinking face

17 posted on 04/15/2021 11:59:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi
Six week old “NEWS”

Pay attention. Lots of people never heard about it because the lying leftist media made it go into a rat hole after a day or two. This was a mass casualty event directly involving the Biden administration and their open border policies, resulting in yet another epic blood bath.

18 posted on 04/15/2021 12:01:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: CurlyDave

The Suburban apparently burst into flames after crossing through the fence...

May have been a covert Trump operation to place explosives along the fence line that just got outed... can daydream...


19 posted on 04/15/2021 12:02:10 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: COBOL2Java

Jao Bai-Din and Gavin Newsom are both active contributors to these deaths. The two must hate Hispanics.


20 posted on 04/15/2021 12:07:48 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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