Posted on 10/15/2007 3:35:49 PM PDT by yorkie
Nine drivers believed to have escaped a deadly tunnel inferno are unaccounted for, and authorities on Monday were scrambling to locate them.
Thirty-one vehicles were involved in the pileup in the curving, darkened tunnel on Interstate 5, but the California Highway Patrol has accounted for only 23 people, including two men and a 6-year-old boy who died in the fire.
If all of them were at the wheel at the time of the crash, excluding the boy, that leaves nine unaccounted for drivers. The number could be higher if there were passengers.
Investigators are confident only three people died, but CHP Assistant Chief Warren Stanley said it's a mystery what happened to the others who left their vehicles to the flames.
"We have no idea," Stanley said. "We haven't identified all the vehicles, we haven't identified all the drivers."
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This is what you get when you give Drivers Licenses to Illegals....
Ran back to Mexico perhaps????
Cars were stolen.
Check the used car dealers that specialize in selling to illegal aliens.
Police unable to locate drivers involved in deadly highway crash....
jose/juan/pedro ~ all part of the amnesty program by jorge bush!!!!
Why not Ali and Kareem and Osama testing to see what would happen?
Someone trying to flush any trace of illegal drugs out of their system perhaps?
It would be very good to find out who was driving those trucks.
The police are looking for a scapegoat, and no one is volunteering.
Reminds me of the head-on tanker crash in a tunnel in Switzerland circa 2002. Nobody ever whispered the ‘T’ word then either.
Beat me to it.
Um, someone call JORGE ARBUSTO, I’m sure he’ll know where these missing drivers are............
These were all large commercial semis. I’m sure the companies that own the trucks can say who the drivers were. They are supposed to have extensive documentation and licenses on file, just for such occasions.
The Daily News in Los Angeles has pulled the article, but about a month ago they had an article saying that 45 percent of drivers are illegal.
>>These were all large commercial semis. I’m sure the companies that own the trucks can say who the drivers were. They are supposed to have extensive documentation and licenses on file, just for such occasions.<<
Problem is, the trucks were burned beyond recognition - no license plates, no papers, no ID on the trucks that burned. Nothing. Just piles of metal shells.
The frame rails of the tractors and trailers have serial numbers stamped into the metal. These numbers are tracable to Vehicle Identification Numbers.
Even the vehicle identification numbers (which are often stamped into the metal frames)?
License plates are stamped, too, and big rigs usually have multiple plates. Even if the paint burns off, they should be readable by a skilled forensic detective.
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