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

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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.
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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.
 
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kcbbq said:
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.
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Speaking in terms of accidents and being at fault, mostly. If you brake check a semi because you think its funny and you get turned into goo by your vehicle's rear end, people are going to laugh at your stupidity at your closed casket funeral. But a bicyclist who feels like playing games with motor vehicles often gets to dodge legal accountability for what comes next with shocking ease.
frozenrunner said:
Comedian Sam Hyde. Vilified as "alt-right" by progressives. Does actual edgy comedy.
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He also keeps getting away with it despite everyone's best efforts.
 
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Not Really Here said:
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?
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From Fox News today:

"The crash occurred around 6:15 a.m. at an intersection just outside Holtville, which dubs itself the world’s "carrot capital" and is about 11 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities said a tractor-trailer and its two empty containers were northbound on State Highway 115 when a Ford Expedition, which had everything except for the front and driver seats removed, pulled in front of it from Norrish Road."

It appears the force of the impact removed those seats as well.
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Slappy McGherkin said:
From Fox News today:

"The crash occurred around 6:15 a.m. at an intersection just outside Holtville, which dubs itself the world’s "carrot capital" and is about 11 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities said a tractor-trailer and its two empty containers were northbound on State Highway 115 when a Ford Expedition, which had everything except for the front and driver seats removed, pulled in front of it from Norrish Road."

It appears the force of the impact removed those seats as well.
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I looked at the area on Google Earth, it's a long straight highway, I imagine the truck driver was doing at least 60mph.
 
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Cheesegirl78 said:
I looked at the area on Google Earth, it's a long straight highway, I imagine the truck driver was doing at least 60mph.
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Concur. Plus, he had tandem dumper trailers that were empty and was likely haulin' ass back to the pits (wherever) to pick up another load of gravel. Empty trailers don't make any money. And not said, I absolutely wonder if he was hauling gravel for building the border wall (pure irony there). Only 11 miles from the border. I see the double-dumpers all the time on AZ 85 hauling ass north-south with gravel, rocks and boulders for building the wall near the Lukeville/Sonoita border crossing. Construction hasn't stopped, or at least hadn't stopped on my last trip to Mexico in late January. Still all kinds of big equipment at work.
 
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2d6 said:
How do you even fit 27 people in a Ford Explorer anyways? They must've been stacked together like a 17th century trans-Atlantic slave ship or something.
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One of the most surreal things Ive ever seen was, I was at a Wal Mart in San Antonio at like 3 or 4 am and this van comes up and youre like "Wow I thought I was the only one out" and the door open and for like 30 seconds its just Mexican Polka and then like 7 or 8 hispanic guys come out and youre like "Oh, theres the guy. Oh and that one....and that one, and that one, and that one..."

It was like a Chinese fire drill except all the while Mexican Polka is playing.
 
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Cheesegirl78 said:
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?
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Sam Hyde is basically an edgier version of Tim & Eric, and has a cult following online especially among Zoomers and 4chan users. He's vilified in the media and on social media as being a alt-right neo Nazi incel, despite obviously not being one. It's a meme and internet inside joke that whenever there's a mass shooting or terrorist attack, people post that photo of him with blonde hair and the machine gun, telling everyone he's the lead suspect (and usually normies and Boomers fall for it because they don't get the joke).

This is him:

 
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Don't Tread on Me said:
What are the odds the driver was drunk?
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I wouldn't bet on drunk (and certainly not the semi driver). But if the Mexican was indeed a part of a human smuggling ring, chances of him being doped up are a safe bet because most of them are deep in cahoots with the cartel guys. They don't outsource that service as an individual like Jose's Tijuana Taxi. Costs money to get across the border and to a safe house somewhere, where they can they be held for further payment or catch a bus to wherever. Average cost for an illegal to cross the border into Murica? About $4000 and that's using a coyote and crossing on foot. Having transportation meet your group near the border (as is likely the case in this crash) is a deluxe option and costs more.

I don't know where Cali has border patrol checkpoints, but AZ has two on AZ 85 and on other main roads from the border. It would take some serious off-roading to get around them and Border Patrol is all over those desert routes constantly. Coming across near Nogales could be done via backroads to avoid the checkpoints, but it's a hell of a lot tougher to get across at Nogales because they've had a serious border wall and enforcement for many years.

Always been a game of cat and mouse. Sometimes a hawk outta nowhere kills the mouse instead of the cat killing it.
 
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While it is a pretty brutal way to die, they had it coming, trying to get over here illegally. I imagine it went down something like this:
Just replace the hot air balloon with the aforementioned Ford, and the panicked English with Spanish.
 
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