Posted on 05/02/2006 9:06:13 PM PDT by SandRat
Seven people were injured when the driver of a pickup truck fleeing from Border Patrol agents crashed into a second pickup in Marana.
A Border Patrol agent spotted the Chevrolet truck on Arizona 86 near Sandario Road about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, said Agent Sean King, a Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.
The agent was suspicious because the truck had no license plate. He tried to pull it over, but the driver sped away, King said. A helicopter followed as the truck turned onto Interstate 19 and then Interstate 10, he said.
It left the freeway at Tangerine Road and ran a stop sign, striking an eastbound Dodge truck around 11 p.m., said Sgt. Tim Brunenkant, a Marana Police Department spokesman.
The Chevrolet truck then caught fire, and all six people in the cab escaped from the flames, Brunenkant said.
The driver was flown to University Medical Center with a life-threatening head injury, but authorities said he was expected to recover.
The passengers were treated for minor injuries at the hospital, then released to the Border Patrol. The driver of the Dodge also was taken to a hospital to be treated for minor injuries, Brunenkant said. No names were released.
Police determined that the Chevrolet truck had been reported stolen and the six people were illegal entrants, Brunenkant said.
Officials have a warrant for the driver's arrest and he may face people-smuggling charges when he is released from the hospital.
œ Contact reporter Becky Pallack at 629-9412 or at bpallack@azstarnet.com.
Having accidents Americans won't have.
ping
Migrants.
I am SOOOOOOOOOO SICK of that word, when the proper words are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
It's a new tactic. There have been a series of vehicle accidents lately in border states of trucks coming in with illegals. They purposely cause an accident then they claim they are hurt so they will be taken to the nearest hospital. They are told in Mexico that the Migra is not allowed to wait for the illegals on hospital property so after they are treated, they book it and they are in AMERICA!
Ah, you're going to hurt their feelings talking like that.
one guy called 'em illegal entrants at least. :-/
Geraldo called them HONORED GUESTS.
I heard this on a local Phoenix radio station's news this morning. The report stated those in the van were a family visiting relatives in the US.
How can the facts get so twisted?
Geraldo is a putz. Maybe he can invite his illegal alien "guests" to join him in Al Capone's vault... :^)
Reporters.
Innocent vehicle struck. Could have been killed, could have been burned and crippled.
Sometimes they are. Frequently, in fact.
Got into an accident once with an illegal about 15 years ago in L.A. Dude ran a red light at about 50 mph and T-boned my rig (missing hitting the driver's side door by a couple feet), totaling it. Guy had no license, no reg, and of course no insurance. ("No tengo insurance, amigo"). The cops took this all in stride, as if they've heard it thousands of times before.
Perhaps they don't bother waiting, but I'd be shocked if they are strictly not allowed to wait for criminal suspects. I don't believe it, really.
whore-who.. oH whore-aldo
putz is much too kind a word for him.
Just having the accidents that Americans can't afford to have.AWB
If they wait to take the illegals into custody after treatment, the BP is liable for their medical bills.
Now, whether the BP abandons them at the hospital as a matter of department policy is unknown to this correspondent...but the matter is moot when you consider the result.
I believe that's accurate. For reasons known only to itself, the Bush administration does not allow its agents to enforce U.S. immigration law at hospitals...
...or at work sites, or at schools, or at airline boarding gates, or at gatherings of hundreds of thousands of protesting illegal aliens...or at much of anyplace at all.
Honored guests.
Nobody with a functioning brain would call the illegal aliens "honored guests."
I remain livid about it.
I agree.
Calling them that is a slap to the face of every immigrant who has gone about the process legally and aboveboard.
It looks like the hot studio lights have cooked some folks brains.
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