14 Dead When Pickup Truck Packed With 23 People Crashes Into Trees. "Highly Probable" That Most Were 'ILLEGALS'.
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14 dead in horrific Texas pickup truck crash
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
A pickup truck carrying 23 people veered off a Texas highway and crashed late Sunday, killing 14 and injuring 9 others.
The Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup was was traveling north on U.S. Highway 59 when it crashed into two large trees near Goliad, Texas, about 100 miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas Highway Patrol trooper Gerald Bryant told KTRK-TV.
Some of the victims were airlifted to hospitals in San Antonio and Corpus Christi. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, police said.
"In my 38 years as an officer, this is one of the worst fatalities I have been to," Bryant said. "I have never seen where we had that many in a vehicle."
The victims were crammed in the cab and bed of the pickup truck.
"Based on the mode of travel, the way that the people were in the vehicle, it's a high probability there were illegal immigrants traveling northbound on 59," Texas Dept. of Safety Lt. Glen Garrett told KIII-TV.
According to CNN, U.S. border patrol and "immigration and customs enforcement agents were called to the scene." Goliad County is about 150 miles northeast of the Mexican border.
The names of the victims have yet to be released. According to MySanAntonio.com, the vehicle was registered to an owner in Houston. The driver of the vehicle was one of the survivors.
"It is not uncommon for human traffickers to try to maximize profits by over-loading vehicles with illegal immigrants," the Associated Press said. "In April, nine Mexican immigrants died near the border when the teenage driver of their van crashed after fleeing Border Patrol. There were 18 people in that minivan."
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They bought a Ford Ranger and headed on out...
The real question is: how did they make it that far into the US? There is a border patrol check point 75 miles north of the US-Mexico border, they made it past there. This is where homeland security should be investigating what's going on here.
The United States Border Patrol is asking everyone to keep on the lookout
for a red 1951 Chevy that they suspect is being used to smuggle illegal
immigrants across the border from Mexico and into points along the U.S.
Border. If you see the vehicle pictured below and have reason to believe
that it is the suspect vehicle, you are urged to contact your local police
department or the U. S. Border Patrol.
And if it proves they were illegal and being smuggled tough sh!t No sympathy here.