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To: My Favorite Headache

You must know something that isn't in the article.

Nowhere does it say the driver was a migrant worker. Or an alien.


9 posted on 01/28/2005 9:10:14 AM PST by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: Lokibob

On the afternoon of June 4, a tractor-trailer rumbled east down S.R. 60 toward the Kissimmee River bridge, drifted left of the center line and smashed into a van carrying five members of a church college-ministry group from Tennessee.

Aaron Brown, 21; his wife, Darci Brown, 22; Johnny Pinkerton, 18; David Childers, 21; and Bradley Askew, 22, died.

The driver of the truck, Salvador De La Cruz, 44,an immigrant from Mexico, was critically injured and in a coma for six weeks. Today he is still recovering, in pain and unable to work. He said the truck's steering malfunctioned just as he approached the bridge.

"It wouldn't respond to the controls," he said. "I can't remember anything after that."

De La Cruz had driven S.R. 60 for years as a commercial truck driver. Besides his crash, "I've seen a lot of accidents, semis going off the road," he said. De La Cruz was ticketed for failure to maintain his vehicle and for crossing the center line.

Scott Pauley, assistant pastor at Temple Baptist Church and director of admissions at the church's Crown College in Powell, Tenn., which sponsored the ministry and music trip the five young people were on, said it was devastating to lose his friends.

"They were the best of the best, you know," Pauley said of the five victims.


15 posted on 01/28/2005 9:20:21 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (I Watch TV, What Do You Want From Me?)
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