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TexasTowelie

(111,279 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 06:07 AM Sep 2015

Another truck chase involving undocumented immigrants results in six deaths in Edna

EDNA - Hours after a multiple-fatality wreck roused the little town of Edna, its mayor sat baffled, still searching for answers.

"These things are a tragedy, and you find yourself wondering why they didn't stop, and you know why," Mayor Joe Hermes said. "They didn't stop because they don't want to be sent back home. Now they're going back in a pine box."

Six people were killed early Thursday morning after leading police on an eight-minute chase through the town and along U.S. Highway 59. Of the 16 packed into the modified 2003 Ford Explorer, all but one were illegal immigrants, Police Chief Clinton Wooldridge said.

The driver, a U.S. citizen, and two others in the vehicle are thought to be members of a smuggling organization, Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/sep/24/6-die-in-edna-crash-some-detained-by-border-offici/

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Another truck chase involving undocumented immigrants results in six deaths in Edna (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2015 OP
More likely the driver didn't want to go to jail. newfie11 Sep 2015 #1
The story states that the driver TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #2

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
1. More likely the driver didn't want to go to jail.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 06:36 AM
Sep 2015

I bet the passengers had little to say about it.
How terrifying for them.

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