Thread: 10 people killed in SUV rollover near Tucson

10 people killed in SUV rollover near Tucson

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SONOITA, Ariz. (AP) — Ten people "stacked like wood" in the back of a sports-utility vehicle were killed when the driver lost control shortly before midnight on a remote southern Arizona highway, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety said Sunday.

Joy Craig said at least 22 men and women were in the vehicle. They are all believed to be undocumented aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and perhaps Mexico, she said.

"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.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety said in a news release Sunday that the vehicle's driver lost control shortly before midnight Saturday for an unknown reason.

Most of the vehicle's 22 passengers were ejected.

Among the survivors, five people have been airlifted to a Tucson hospital and seven people were transported to hospitals in Tucson and Sierra Vista.

The identity of the driver, passengers and the vehicle's owner are being withheld pending their identification and notification of relatives.

The department says the cause of the rollover is under investigation.

Craig said investigators have not identified the driver. If the driver survives, Craig said charges against him would be pending.

"Basically, this is like a 10-time homicide scene," she said.

Craig said the remote area about four miles east of Sonoita along the two-lane Arizona 82 where the vehicle rolled sees a lot of undocumented aliens being transported to the United States.

"We see the people stacked like wood frequently," she said. "If they had had the right number of people in there and they all had their seat belts on, they would have lived."

Authorities are looking for anyone else who may be injured, she said.

Craig could not confirm reports of five victims who fled the scene and sought help from a gas station in Sonoita.

She said an unidentified number of victims have been treated and released from local hospitals and turned over to U.S. Border Patrol agents.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... rash_N.htm

Joy Craig said at least 22 men and women were in the vehicle.

And we complain if a fat person sits in the seat next to us on a plane.
LOL

The department says the cause of the rollover is under investigation.

22 passengers is a huge distraction. Alcohol could have been a factor too.

Originally Posted by butterbean

The department says the cause of the rollover is under investigation.

22 passengers is a huge distraction. Alcohol could have been a factor too.

Most of these smugglers are meth addicts! They don't care about peoples lives one bit and their too screwed up to take care of their own.
I've been on calls like this back in my Medic days and that was twenty five years ago. Things don't change all that much.

1. Should not have been here for the accident to happen

2. I'll say a prayer for them

3. Get rid of the open border politicians and this will not occur at the level it is.

4. You hear much less when an American is killed by an Illegal Alien. It's time to change that

They are now saying there were 27 or 29 on board and on the 10 o'clock news that the vehicle was being followed by BP. 14 of the injured went to the U of A Hosp. Here in Tucson and they needed 11 helicopter rides. Oh the cost and manpower!

No time! Got to go.

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You realize that a yellow school bus has about 24 seats?

That SUV was overlaoded and carring half a bus load of people.

Dixie

Patch them up and SEND THEY HOME!!!!!