Posted on 05/05/2007 8:34:25 AM PDT by TheDon
Lori Coble beamed as she posed for the camera with her husband and their three small children. Katie was still a baby, perched on Lori's hip. Kyle and Emma in matching white shirts, jeans and flip-flops grinned as they crowded on their dad Chris' lap.
"Kyle, Katie and Emma the crazy monkeys" as the Ladera Ranch family's Web site proclaimed. The kids grew up so fast.
The dream was abruptly shattered about 1:10 p.m. Friday when a big-rig slammed into the back of the family's 2006 Chrysler Town & Country minivan on the southbound Santa Ana (I-5) Freeway north of Oso Parkway.
The three Coble kids were in the back of the minivan, strapped into car seats and booster seats. Lori was driving. Grandmother Cynthia Maestri was in the front passenger seat.
Two-year-old Katie and 5-year-old Kyle were rushed to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. Katie died just before 2 p.m. Four-year-old Emma died minutes later at Saddleback Memorial Hospital in Laguna Hills, California Highway Patrol officer Katrina Lundgren said.
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CHP investigators spent hours questioning the driver, Jorge Miguel Romero, 37, of Apple Valley, who said he saw the traffic backed up, applied the brakes but couldn't stop in time.
Fontana-based leasing company Aurora TRL, which owns the truck, did not return calls for comment.
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so if you were a chem e like i was, what are you now?
True. I lived right off Oso Parkway in Aliso Viejo for several years before I moved up here. Nice, wide, straight roadway, in the middle of the afternoon.
The Oso offramp may have been backed up for some reason, which I have seen it do, otherwise it’s a safe stretch of road.
Jorge Miguel Romero, 37, of Apple Valley, had been hauling electronics in a truck owned by KW Express, a Carson-based freight company.
According to the CHP, Romero was going 55-60 mph and couldn’t stop in time to avoid the Coble minivan.
Romero was cited in 2002 and 2006 for speeding in a tractor-trailer, the Orange County Register reported. He was ticketed for driving without his lights on 2005 and for driving with a suspended license in 1997.
The Register reported that KW has a driver safety score of 74, meaning that 74 percent of companies rank higher in driver safety. The score is not considered deficient, the newspaper reported.
From http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_127221046.html
Welcome to FR. Any particular reason you picked me out to post to?
“People who will be leaving So Cal shortly.” You can count me in on that. If the courts are only to ensure that blacks can beat up on whites (see Long Beach Hallowe’en incident) and the police are only to ensure that illegals and anarchists can throw stuff at the police with impunity (and if they respond to the lawlessness they are called ‘nazis’, and whites exist soley to FUND ALL THAT, then you can count me out.
There was a incident in Pittsburgh last year. A father and a set of triplets was hit by a Large Chipper that broke loose from the truck towing it. It killed two of the Triplets and the father. The Truck driver admittied to taken pain killers and was drunk the night before. Also, the Chipper was not attached to the truck right. He is jail for three counts of Vechilar Homicide.
it is shame when this happens to anybody, let alone a family. may God Bless and Keep them.
In reading several of the posts regarding the Coble family tragedy I am so disheartened by the ridiculous comments regarding the possibility of the truck driver being illegal. An accident is exactly that, an accident. Doesn’t matter what color or nationality the people are, would it have been better if the Coble’s were hispanic and the truck driver was white? Would that have made everyone feel better?
No need for such concerns. If you have lived in SoCal with the massive invasion, read millions, of Mexican illegal aliens, you would know such a question is legit. If the driver is here illegally, hopefully it will wake up a few more dozing voters that continuing to ignore the issue has a price, i.e. if we enforced our immigration laws, the Coble family would not have suffered such a terrible loss.
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