Thread: Bus full of illegals flips, 6 dead.

PHOENIX -- Arizona authorities say six people were killed after a passenger bus was clipped by another vehicle and rolled over on the interstate south of Phoenix.

Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves says 15 others, including two 11-year-olds, were injured in the Friday morning accident on Interstate 10 about 25 miles south of Phoenix. The bus was carrying 21 passengers.

Graves says 10 of the injured were taken by ambulance to various hospitals and five were flown by medical helicopter.

He says two adult males and four adult females were killed.

The commercial bus is owned by Tierra Santa Inc. out of Los Angeles.

Graves says it's not clear where the bus was headed.

Rescuers set up a triage area in the middle of the interstate and broke out windows of the bus to get to victims.

This company caters to illegals. They should be shut down.

I looked at about a dozen stories regarding this accident. Other than the fact that this bus may have belonged to a Mexican oriented company, no where do I find a connection to Illegal Aliens.

I was just wondering what is the source for the title of this story.

R/

KTLA 5 in LA reports that many on board have questionable legal status.

Still waiting for the MSM's slant on this.

That bus was racist...

Moved to Other Topics until there is concrete evidence that those aboard were illegals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_ ... _bus_crash

SACATON, Ariz. – Six people were ejected from a bus and killed Friday when the vehicle hit a pickup and rolled over on the interstate south of Phoenix, state police said.

The six were thrown about 10 yards in the accident about 5:30 a.m. on the Gila River Indian Reservation near the community of Sacaton, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Their bodies were covered with blue tarps midmorning Friday, and police said there may be another victim under the bus.

The roof of the bus was crushed and all the windows were knocked out, with one thrown as far as 25 yards.

DPS spokesman Bart Graves said two men and four women, all aboard the bus, were killed. The bus, traveling from central Mexico to Los Angeles, was carrying 22 passengers.

Eight of the injured were taken to Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, where six were in critical condition with life-threatening injuries ranging from broken spines and pelvises to head injuries, hospital spokesman Michael Murphy said.

He said an 11-year-old boy and the bus driver were among the patients at the hospital, and that the two of them were in guarded condition with non-life-threatening injuries.

Early reports said the bus hit a semi, but Graves said later a semi was not involved in the crash.

Police said the bus hit the pickup, veered into the central median, then overcorrected and rolled once before landing on its wheels.

The accident scene quickly became a mass of police and rescue personnel as ambulances arrived and medics set up a triage area in the middle of the normally busy interstate, preparing the injured for transport.

Medical helicopters landed on the freeway to airlift the most critically injured to area hospitals.

The bus originated in central Mexico near Durango, Graves said. It entered the United States at El Paso, Texas, and was traveling westbound on I-10.

Two drivers were onboard, the main driver and a relief driver. The plan was to switch drivers in Phoenix, Graves said.

The bus is owned by Tierra Santa Inc. A phone message left by The Associated Press was not immediately returned.

Police said the rollover triggered a second accident when another pickup slowed and was hit by a sedan. One person from the sedan was taken to a hospital.

Both westbound lanes of I-10 were closed at milepost 173, and traffic was being rerouted onto State Route 587 until further notice.

The accident scene, about 25 miles south of downtown Phoenix, remained under investigation

If the bus came through a customs checkpoint, I would assume that all passengers were checked for documents.

It seems as if anything occurs involving people of Hispanic origin, some assume they must be illegal.

These buses are checked when they cross the border. Inspectors unload the luggage at the border, do a physical check and check all passengers passports, visas and I-9's.

Since this came through El Paso. 50 miles west of El Paso in New Mexico is another check point, this time manned by the Border Patrol. Dogs, ID check, same regimen as when they crossed the border.

In addition, in the Arizona desert, there are mobile CBP checkpoints.

One could say without hesitation that every soul on this bus was in this country legally.

KTLA:

No Answers From Co. Involved in Fatal Bus Accident,

Chris Wolfe Reports

VIDEO

http://www.ktla.com/videobeta/?watchId= ... c4044e8754

Originally Posted by ccsingleton

In addition, in the Arizona desert, there are mobile CBP checkpoints.

I wish this were true. There are no BP checkpoints on the freeway from the New Mexico border westbound all the way to Yuma. There is a semi permanate checkpoint heading east outside of Yuma.
To Phoenix and back from Tucson, have NEVER seen a BP checkpoint, mobile or otherwise, in 30 years.