Six illegals nabbed after wreck
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Cherry Young


DPS Trooper Tres Lattimore talks to the illegal immigrants


A two vehicle accident Monday morning turned out to be a lot more than law enforcement personnel expected.
While there were no injuries in the accident, one vehicle turned out to be packed full of illegal immigrants.
While heading north on Highway 16 South just south of FM 1191, Juan Piceno, 28, driving a white Ford 350 pulling a flat-bed trailer, was struck by a black Chrysler sedan driven by Nikki Nantz, 26, who had been traveling in the opposite direction and failed to yield before making a left turn into her driveway. Nantz said she had waited for a semi tractor to pass and turned without seeing Piceno’s vehicle behind it.



Piceno had five passengers in his truck. Nantz’s two children, ages 4 and 5, were in her car. No one was injured.
Young County Sheriff Deputy Patrick Bradford began the investigation and turned it over to Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Tres Lattimore when he arrived.
Bradford said it looked to him like Nantz hit the driver’s side axle of the trailer when she turned. Piceno swerved to avoid the impact, spun into the ditch on the east side of the road and his trailer swung around and hit the driver’s side doors of the truck.
Nantz said it looked to her like Piceno was spinning.
“As bad as it looked, the impact was not that great,â€