This morning's Herald said that two died. For those (like Mexico's State Department) who decry the deaths every year of hundreds of illegals, remember that this is how most of them die...fleeing from the law.
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.
This morning's Herald said that two died. For those (like Mexico's State Department) who decry the deaths every year of hundreds of illegals, remember that this is how most of them die...fleeing from the law.
Yet, and I hear it coming,....it was somehow our fault and not the illegals. We just shouldn't have been chasing them. That is exactly what I expect to read in the Editorial and letters in the Arizona RED Star on Monday! I do so dispise the Open Border LIBERATAs.
BTT
"Great .... now the taxpayer is stuck with huge illegal alien hospital bills"
should have treated them like a horse with a broken leg, shoot them and save us the expense.
Build another party, completely independent of the two beltway parties. The current two parties are too corrupt, too entrenched, and basically beyond repair. This is clear.
They are killing this country with their never ending spending, debt, and this open border, titanic disaster.
Simply put, if the American people do not do this, this country will eventually be lost.
A government that can not or will not control it's borders and protect it's sovereignty against millions pouring in illegally, illegitimately, will itself become illegitimate.
The time for change is now. Right now.
We must regain control of our beloved country now, or we and our children are all going to pay an unimaginable price.
The total cost of this invasion of millions has become staggering to the tax payers.
Not to mention the endless line of law abiding citizen victims, left in it's wake.
>>This nation is going into the sh!tter. No nation has ever come back from where we are to live again.<<
Keep talking like that and Miss Marple will refuse to acknowledge your posts!
I know, she won't reply to mine..ain't that right JB?
Did the previous batch of lettuce pickers quit ---- what are all the millions more coming in expecting to do for jobs?
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