Posted on 06/07/2009 8:49:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ten people "stacked like wood" in the back of a sports-utility vehicle were killed when the driver lost control on a remote southeastern Arizona highway, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety said Sunday.
DPS Officer Joy Craig said at least 27 men and women were in the vehicle traveling on State Route 82 about four miles east of Sonoita when the vehicle rolled for an unknown reason shortly before midnight Saturday.
Most of the vehicle's passengers were ejected.
Authorities said all the victims are believed to be illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Equador and perhaps Mexico.
"There was no rear seat in the (Ford) Excursion. They stack live people, as many as they can, like stacking wood," Craig told The Associated Press.
Five survivors have been airlifted to a Tucson hospital and seven people were transported to hospitals in Tucson and Sierra Vista.
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...my thread beat your thread by 9 seconds.....so there
Southbound or northbound?
Well,...I wish you would have told me that you were doing it....but we had different sources,...mine was right there....HA!
ten ppl killed, this all at tax payers expense as well.. costs more to process dead illegals than it does live ones... and now who is picking up the tabs for those hospitalized.. probably all those governments where they came from?
Terrible tragedy no matter their immigration status.
” costs more to process dead illegals than it does live ones...”
Just bring a backhoe to the accident and plant them!
Cochise County picks up 100% of the tab. The only thing countries south of the border will finance is lawyers to sue a deep taxpayer pocket.
50% of Cochise Counties budget gets spent on medical for illegal aliens.
Now hold on a minute!
People stacked like cordwood in the back of an SUV? Those people could have already been dead before the rollover, the result of suffocation for those on the bottom of the stacks.
And I’m not surprised the vehicle, the weight of which was overloaded, rolled over. They were most likely speeding like happens so often in these cases.
Someone yelled “Tacos” and everyone inside got excited and scared the driver who kept looking around and saying “Que”?, thusly losing his concentration on the road and ended up in a ditch instead.
Bill to be submitted to the Internal Re-Allocation Service (IRS).
God Bless those killed and their families....I don’t want to pick up the tab for these people either but they are people, God’s people.....we owe them a little compassion no matter what the circumstances...
I just don’t find anything funny about these deaths....no one should....
Sorry. I had compassion for the first 13 million.
I’m out of compassion. Though I am looking for a little sympathy for myself for putting up with this stuff for the past few decades.
How about the reason being about one ton overweight?
ditto
Correction. Santa Cruz County is gonna pay for this one. Local news report says 11 helicopters were dispatched. That means most or all of southern Az was without helicopter coverage last night.
4 miles east of Sonoita means they were comming in from the Parker Canyon Lake area. Thats the ultimate insult- Slave running adjacent to a Border Patrol station.
and now who is picking up the tabs for those hospitalized
Growing industry - sending bodies of deceased migrants back to Mexico
A new business that sold repatriation certificates – documents that act as life insurance and cover funereal costs – saw an opportunity to promote their product and offered to donate funds to send the bodies to Chiapas.
News of the service reached national Hispanic news agencies and marked a new milestone in the repatriation of Mexican immigrants. As the Latino community in the United States continues to grow, a booming industry has emerged to cover the costs of sending the remains of deceased migrants back to Mexico.
Consulate has funds to send bodies to Mexico for burial
The Mexican consulate in Manhattan will be able to fully cover the costs this year of repatriating some 300 deceased Mexicans from the tri-state area back to Mexico, officials said Friday.
Consul General Ruben Beltran said the consulate is responding to the "strong desire" among Mexicans living outside of their native land to be buried in Mexico.
AZ Tragic crash lucky for 2 illegal immigrants
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Costs to area hospitals
University Medical Center — treated three patients from the rollover at an estimated cost of $185,000, hospital spokeswoman Katie Riley said.
Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix — treated two patients. One was there for 13 days and cost $142,000 to treat, and the other stayed for five days and cost $15,760 to treat, hospital spokeswoman Judy Keane said.
Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix — treated four people from the accident but declined to give the cost to treat them due to confidentiality issues.
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