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Truck crash kills 1, hurts 15. Carried illegal entrants; was fleeing police. (Illegals again!)
Arizona Daily Star ^ | 01/09/04 | Eric Swedlund

Posted on 01/09/2005 8:02:27 AM PST by SandRat

One person died and at least 15 others were seriously injured Saturday when a pickup truck loaded with illegal entrants crashed while trying to evade police on U.S. 191 south of Willcox.

About 6 p.m., a Department of Public Safety officer on patrol saw the Ford F250 northbound on the highway near Sunsites, about 25 miles south of Willcox. The officer checked the vehicle's license plate, which confirmed the truck was stolen, said Officer Frank Valenzuela, a DPS spokesman in Phoenix.

The officer tried stopping the truck, which then fled.

About the same time the officer called in a pursuit on his radio, the driver of the truck lost control and crashed, Valenzuela said.

The truck was the only vehicle involved in the collision, Valenzuela said. There was no estimate of the truck's speed or cause of the collision in preliminary information.

One person was dead at the scene and at least 15 others were seriously injured. Officers suspect a number of other people ran from the collision. All are believed to be illegal entrants, Valenzuela said.

Several helicopters from Tucson and surrounding areas took the injured to hospitals.

The Cochise County Sheriff's Department assisted the DPS in securing the area, said spokeswoman Carol Capas. A deputy was headed to assist before the crash but didn't arrive at the scene until afterward, she said.

As Southern Arizona's only Level 1 trauma center, University Medical Center received three of the most serious patients, all adult men, said Katie Riley, a hospital spokeswoman.

Other injured were taken to hospitals in Benson and Willcox.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; benson; crash; crime; flee; illegals; immigrantlist; kill; phoenix; police; rabbit; truckwreck; tucson; willcox
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To: sgtbono2002
We've had local hospitals that have had to close ER's, close maternity services all because of this very problem. Hijinx's better half works for a local hospital and has tales to curl what little hair you may have on your head on this.
21 posted on 01/09/2005 8:41:41 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Jeeez, just the helicopter bill is going to be skyhigh, never mind the hospital bills :-)

Who's paying for all this? Oh, nevermind...


22 posted on 01/09/2005 9:03:14 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl
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To: Servant of the 9
Should have let the rest die in the wreck, taped it all, and sent the DVDs to every news outlet in Mexico as a warning.

If their media operates like ours does, those tapes would never see the light of day. After all, can't be scaring the peasants, who will be sending millions of dollars back to Mother Mexico, can they?

23 posted on 01/09/2005 9:06:42 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl
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To: SandRat

Well at least this time they didn't kill and maim a bunch of the local citizens.

I'd still like to see a follow-up on that last incident. We know who paid the tab on the illegals. But who paid for Jim and Emilia's funeral? Who paid the medical expenses on the dozen American citizens who were severely injured?


24 posted on 01/09/2005 9:20:07 AM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a mean-spirited & divisive loco gringo armed terrorist vigilante cucaracha!)
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To: SandRat

So now it's illegal "entrants"? How much more can the press water this down?


25 posted on 01/09/2005 9:30:32 AM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: JackelopeBreeder

I don't even have to ask to know that it wasn't the State or Mexico or el Zorro. Hell I'd be surprised if el Zorro even sent flowers and a not of apology.


26 posted on 01/09/2005 9:38:28 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

Hey! That's an improvement and movement towards our side from "undocumented migrant."


27 posted on 01/09/2005 9:39:43 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
Ol' Vicente would sh** a brick if our President had the courage to send the bills to him and demand payment...

I'm dreaming - he doesn't.

28 posted on 01/09/2005 9:50:37 AM PST by janetgreen
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To: SandRat
You suppose they all have blue cross/blue shield?Or will they just write a check when they leave the hospital? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Vicente Fox will be picking up the tab, won't he.
29 posted on 01/09/2005 9:56:51 AM PST by rodguy911 (rodguy911:First let's get rid of the UN and then the ACLU, or vice versa..)
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To: janetgreen
I'd like to have the bills hand delivered via another Gen "Black-Jack" Pershing Punitive Expedition to el Zorro.
30 posted on 01/09/2005 9:57:09 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
el Zorro

The President doesn't want to offend his buddy el Zorro. He would rather American taxpayers foot the bills, which are in the billions. He sure isn't afraid of offending us.

31 posted on 01/09/2005 10:00:47 AM PST by janetgreen
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To: SandRat
Illegal entrant?

Sounds like they caught a cat in a dog suit at Westminster.

32 posted on 01/09/2005 10:05:10 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: SandRat
Hell I'd be surprised if el Zorro even sent flowers and a not of apology.

Yep, highly doubtful. But then again, none of our own politicians said word one about the incident.

33 posted on 01/09/2005 10:10:22 AM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a mean-spirited & divisive loco gringo armed terrorist vigilante cucaracha!)
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To: JackelopeBreeder

This nation is going into the sh!tter. No nation has ever come back from where we are to live again.


34 posted on 01/09/2005 10:24:36 AM PST by Righter-than-Rush
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To: SandRat
Just look at the cost of this one incident to society:

Stolen vehicle + insurance costs, LEOs time & expenses, many chopper flights, treatment of injuries especially three requiring trauma center treatment, legal & court costs, feeding & housing the criminals for some period of time -- all at taxpayer expense.

Send Vicente Fox the bill!

35 posted on 01/09/2005 10:25:26 AM PST by citizen (Yo W! Read my lips: No Amnistia by any name!)
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To: sgtbono2002

Oh, right, I forgot to put the criminal's funeral or flight home for same on my list of costs to society...


37 posted on 01/09/2005 10:31:47 AM PST by citizen (Yo W! Read my lips: No Amnistia by any name!)
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To: citizen

From the last major crash. Two dead Americans, four Mexicans. Twenty-five injured; fifteen had to be flown out to the trauma centers in Tucson and Phoenix.

The coyote and driver are being held on death penalty charges, but I expect the government will pussy out and let them cop a plea.

38 posted on 01/09/2005 10:45:45 AM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a mean-spirited & divisive loco gringo armed terrorist vigilante cucaracha!)
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To: Old Professer

Still a better description than "undocumented migrant" which used to be the PC description de jour.


39 posted on 01/09/2005 11:02:19 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: citizen
Send Vicente Fox the bill!

Send it? I want it hand delivered to el Zorro by a new Gen "Black-Jack" Pershing at the head of a 2nd Mexican Punative mission into Mexico!

40 posted on 01/09/2005 11:07:58 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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