Disaster SUV stuffed with 27 Mexicans crashes in southern California, 15 dead

13 of 25 SUV passengers killed, several injured in mass casualty crash near US-Mexico border

Officials said 13 people were killed and several others were injured when a Ford Expedition with 25 passengers collided with a semi-truck in Imperial County near the US-Mexico border on the morning of March 2.

www.foxla.com

HOLTVILLE, Calif. - Officials said at least 15 people were killed and several others were injured when a Ford Expedition with 27 passengers collided with a semi-truck carrying gravel in Imperial County on Tuesday morning.

The mass casualty crash was reported just before 8 a.m. in the city of Holtville on Highway 115 located 125 miles east of San Diego, according to Battalion Chief Juan Rodelo with the City of Imperial Fire Department.

First responders pronounced 14 people dead at the scene and a 15th person died on the way to the hospital.

Authorities confirmed just before 9 a.m. four patients were rushed to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs and that three of them were admitted into the intensive care unit. The condition of the fourth patient who was sent to the Palm Springs hospital is currently unknown.

Seven patients were taken to El Centro Regional Medical Center and two were taken to Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley. One of the patients taken to El Centro has died, officials said.

FOX 11 has a crew on the way.



27 people in a Ford Explorer, doesn't even seem possible. They must have been stacked on top of each other like wood. What a shame. Such a rotten way to die.

 

[Bowl of Ramen]

My husband drives rock/gravel trucks now, and the stories he tells me about people pulling out in front of him curl my toes. Something that weighs over 80,000 pounds going 60 mph cannot stop on a damn dime, people.

I live next to a train yard. Seen way too many dumbasses play chicken with trains. One day I had the misfortune of watching a woman park on the tracks during a bottleneck in the intersection. Just in time for the evening Amtrak. Oblivious to it at the last second, it sent her tiny sons flying thirty feet. She lived, of course. It’s like nobody understands basic physics.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

It’s like nobody understands basic physics.

Watching people be so rough with their brakes and accelerator in general makes me doubt they understand Newton's Laws of Motion. Which is also why I don't think self-driving cars will be a thing; too many idiots on the road for a computer to follow traffic laws.

 

[Angry New Ager]

27 people in a Ford Explorer, doesn't even seem possible. They must have been stacked on top of each other like wood. What a shame. Such a rotten way to die.

The rear seats had been removed from the vehicle, and it was a Ford Expedition, which is quite a bit bigger than the Explorer.

Also, the kinds of Mexicans desperate enough to cram themselves into a smuggler's vehicle like that tend not to be very big.

That's still a mind-boggling number of people to cram into that space. But it happens every damned day, and this isn't the first horrific wreck with double-digit fatalities I've ever heard of, sad to say.

 

[theshep]

 

[The handsome tard]

Watching people be so rough with their brakes and accelerator in general makes me doubt they understand Newton's Laws of Motion. Which is also why I don't think self-driving cars will be a thing; too many idiots on the road for a computer to follow traffic laws.

I have seen children drive better than some people with so called "Driver's License" behind the wheel. I gotta play safe always because you never know when a guy might just go when he is suppose to stop for you.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I am tired of Mexicans appropriating White culture.

Did one of them bother to learn about the cultural and sociological aspect of stuffing before they tried and failed?

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While we're at it, let's add when people try the same stunt in a VW Beetle.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

Mongolian school bus:

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[MembersSchoolPizza]

I caught a clip of this on the 'Tube from, I think, ABC news. A mainstream outlet, anyways. I remember the reporter, "We're unsure at this time why none of the passengers had ID on them."

 

[Homersexual]

They have released the picture of the truck driver

Reportedly he made the following statement to the police at the scene, "I only got 15?! Fuck!!".

 

[Bowl of Ramen]

Watching people be so rough with their brakes and accelerator in general makes me doubt they understand Newton's Laws of Motion. Which is also why I don't think self-driving cars will be a thing; too many idiots on the road for a computer to follow traffic laws.

I would extend that further, another huge threat is pedestrians who, because they believe their right-of-way suspends Newton, step right on out in front of traffic assuming cars will magically stop on a dime for them. Cyclists are even more infuriating. And when some idiot on a bike becomes a gnat on the grill of a semi through his own fault, who gets the blame? The trucker, even though the cyclist probably broke three traffic laws to jump in front of the guy. Mass and energy wins again. I do feel bad for the guys in the Ford, illegal or not though. It’s a shitty way to go.

 

[Not Really Here]

U.S.A. effectively have no driver education for new drivers or mandatory requirement of it for driver's license. Any real decent or better driver ed requires shelling out the greenbacks and barely any American wants to do that.

Once upon a time I watched a Haitian take a written exam at the DMV, the rules said you only got two chances to take the test(multiple choice on touch screen) then you had to come back another day to try.
During the hour and a half I was there(fuck the DMV) I watched him fail the test 4 times, as I was walking out the door he was taking the test a fifth time.
But then again it could have been the twentieth time, because he was there for who knows how long before I got there.

I'm guessing they took out all but the driver's seat to fit that many people, don't really need seatbelts when you have that many people crammed in right?

 

[Snekposter]

I would extend that further, another huge threat is pedestrians who, because they believe their right-of-way suspends Newton, step right on out in front of traffic assuming cars will magically stop on a dime for them. Cyclists are even more infuriating. And when some idiot on a bike becomes a gnat on the grill of a semi through his own fault, who gets the blame? The trucker, even though the cyclist probably broke three traffic laws to jump in front of the guy. Mass and energy wins again. I do feel bad for the guys in the Ford, illegal or not though. It’s a shitty way to go.

Goddamn bicyclists. "Bigger object has right of way" was law for a long long time for a reason until they started bitching and fucked up California's road laws.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

Plenty more where that came from.

 

[NerdShamer]

I do feel bad for the guys in the Ford, illegal or not though. It’s a shitty way to go.

Well, you can only feel bad about people for so long until they pull something that's so monumentally dumb, that they kind of deserved it.

Let's face it, if it wasn't the truck that got them; either a cop would have tried to stopped them and the SUV would have flipped over in the ensuing chase, or they would have caused an accident, elsewhere.

 

[Bowl of Ramen]

Well, you can only feel bad about people for so long until they pull something that's so monumentally dumb, that they kind of deserved it.

Let's face it, if it wasn't the truck that got them; either a cop would have tried to stopped them and the SUV would have flipped over in the ensuing chase, or they would have caused an accident, elsewhere.

Thing is, I’m surprised it was drivable enough to go any distance (I use “drivable” loosely). It could’ve rolled over at a much slower speed and at least killed a few less people, and not involved an innocent truck driver. At any rate... let it be a lesson.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

I caught a clip of this on the 'Tube from, I think, ABC news. A mainstream outlet, anyways. I remember the reporter, "We're unsure at this time why none of the passengers had ID on them."

None of our allowed ratings suit the amount of quiet resignation I feel right now.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

They have released the picture of the truck driver

Reportedly he made the following statement to the police at the scene, "I only got 15?! Fuck!!".

I know I'm really late on this, so give me all the clocks and hats and whatever else you can throw at me, but who is this guy?

 

[kcbbq]

Goddamn bicyclists. "Bigger object has right of way" was law for a long long time for a reason until they started bitching and fucked up California's road laws.

When was that true, because it sounds like something car drivers want to be true but wasn't.

Everything I've ever seen for larger vehicles having the right of way is for very specific things like two vehicles meeting on a very narrow street and the smaller vehicle is the one that has to back up to let the other through, not for telling people they have no right to be on the road when you're around.

 

[The-Mad-Asshatter]

You're assuming that Mexicans with a third grade Mexico-quality "education" know jack shit about the laws of physics. Since they literally don't, they use Mexico logic instead, which dictates that you can load a crossover SUV with 30 people and still outrun the Border Patrol without rolling the fucker and scattering bodies all over the desert. These are the people who will stuff 60 people in a two bedroom house built in 1922 to hold a nuclear family of four. There have been cases in Phoenix where cops have found old abandoned housing bubble-era houses with migrants stuffed in them so tight they literally couldn't move, in order to wheedle more cash out of their relatives in Mexico. After they clear the houses out the walls are caked in filth. The whole shitshow is simply beyond the capacity of this cis-het-white-oppressor-trash average guy to wrap my brain around. I must be racist.

Even in the houses, over-packing them is dangerous. Occupancy laws are another one of those laws also written in blood, having too many people in one place ends up resulting in fatalities when too many people try to exit at once during a fire. People will panic and inadvertently block exits, or the panicked mob may crush someone (or a bunch of someones) if they trip and fall.

As to a bad education, what I've heard is that the many Mexicans who try to cross are the really poor ones, the ones that remain in their country often seem to be better well off. I've even read comments on YouTube from a patriotic Mexicans that had a dim view of the people that leave, they considered the people as abandoning their country and not staying to try and fight to make it a better place.

 

[frozenrunner]

I know I'm really late on this, so give me all the clocks and hats and whatever else you can throw at me, but who is this guy?

Comedian Sam Hyde. Vilified as "alt-right" by progressives. Does actual edgy comedy.