Thread: AZ:Van loaded with suspected IAs rolls over on I-10

At least 1 dead, several injured in I-10 rollover near Benson
By Dale Quinn
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.07.2008
At least one person was killed and more than a dozen were injured when a van loaded with suspected illegal entrants rolled on Interstate 10 near Benson.

The van was westbound on I-10 when it rolled just after 5 a.m. near Empirita Road at milepost 292, about 15 miles west of Benson, said Officer Quent Mehr, a Department of Public Safety spokesman. Seventeen people were taken Tucson hospitals, Mehr said, and Border Patrol officials apprehended several people who had fled the scene of the crash.
As many as 30 people may have been in the van, officials said.
Eight agencies responded to the crash, including DPS, the Tucson Fire Department and Border Patrol. Helicopters scoured the nearby desert looking for additional passengers who may have left the scene.
An e-mail from DPS Lt. James Warriner said three people were killed, but Mehr, who was at the scene, could not confirm that.
Border Patrol agents were conducting traffic stops in the area early Monday when they saw van, which they thought looked suspicious, Mehr said.

They did not pursue the van, but as they looked for it on I-10 they found it had rolled off the north side of the interstate, Mehr said.
The westbound lanes of I-10 remained open, but the offramp at Empirita Road was closed.

Mehr could not confirm whether the illegal entrants were being smuggled across the state or if they were day laborers on their way to work.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were beginning to interview the illegal entrants Monday morning, spokesman Vincent Picard said. Investigators would talk with the people in the hospital to reconstruct who the people were and where they were going, he said.

Contact reporter Dale Quinn at 629-9412 or dquinn@azstarnet.com.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/233244.php

Cops,BP,Fire,EMTs,Chopper,Medical court and deportation my est $150k

Deport $1000 x30

response $45000

Court and legal aid $50000

Medical $25000

YAWN! The ICE will let the 30 go and will go after the driver...and those other 30 will maybe testify against the driver and we get 30 more ILLEGALS here who will not be deported and the driver goes to jail. The coyotes and the drivers are just as bad as the ILLEGALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ICE never understands this!

Way to go ICE you worthless incompetents and your federal attorney ffriends!

Published: 04.08.2008
Van rollover swamps Kino ER; UMC trauma center left 'busy'
HEIDI ROWLEY
Tucson Citizen
Four hospitals in Tucson and one in Phoenix were needed Monday to treat what is believed to be the largest number of suspected illegal immigrants injured in a single crash or rollover in southern Arizona, according to Citizen archives.
Thirty people were injured and one woman was killed Monday morning when a van rolled near an Interstate 10 offramp about 10 miles west of Benson.
One patient, who was one of 11 initially taken to University Physicians Hospital at Kino Campus, was flown to Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix because he needed trauma care and no trauma beds were available at University Medical Center, said Dr. Mazda Shirazi, medical director for Kino's emergency and urgent care departments. Southern Arizona's only Level 1 trauma center is at UMC.
"We are in a bed shortage situation at all times in Tucson, Arizona," he said.
With 21 emergency room beds and five urgent-care beds at UPH, 11 new patients at the same time "overwhelmed us," Shirazi said.
The 5 a.m. crash on the Empirita Road offramp forced patients in hospital waiting rooms across Tucson to wait even longer and tested the limits of Tucson hospitals.
"Can Tucson absorb it?" Shirazi asked. "It depends on the time of the day, day of the week. If this would have happened 1 1/2 months ago in the surge of the flu epidemic, it would have been much harder to absorb than today."
Five passengers were taken by helicopter to UMC, with another arriving by ambulance. Eleven ambulances took patients to UPH, while another 13 of the van's passengers were taken to Tucson Medical Center and St. Joseph's Medical Center by ambulance or by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Two of UPH's patients needed specialty care that was not available at the hospital. UMC took one of those patients, said spokeswoman Katie Riley. Shirazi did not know where the other patient would be transported.
Shirazi said UPH received the brunt of the patients because they were the closest hospital to the scene by ambulance. A doctor was called in to open UPH's urgent care unit early, but the doctor ended up stuck in the traffic snag caused by the crash.
Riley said UMC called doctors and staff members scheduled to start at 11 a.m. to come in early and treat the six trauma patients taken to the UMC emergency department.
Riley said the trauma staff was busy but got to each patient quickly. She said elective surgeries were not canceled for the day, one of UMC's options when surgeons are swamped with trauma patients.
Of the six who were taken to UMC, she said two were in critical condition, two in serious condition, one in fair condition and the other in good condition.
Of the four patients taken to St. Joseph's, Carondelet spokeswoman Lisa Contreras said all were in stable and good condition. The nine patients taken to TMC had minor injuries, spokesman Mike Letson said.
"As emergency physicians, we're always ready to see patients," Shirazi said. "The issue comes when there's not enough beds or facilities."
In addition to the injuries the van passengers sustained, one patient at UPH was placed in isolation because he had the chicken pox, Shirazi said.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/81874.php

Originally Posted by jimpasz

Cops,BP,Fire,EMTs,Chopper,Medical court and deportation my est $150k

Deport $1000 x30

response $45000

Court and legal aid $50000

Medical $25000

Revised est Medical $200000