2 IMMIGRANTS DIE IN CRASH.Byline: Amanda Covarrubias Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A van packed with nearly two dozen people crashed near an immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. checkpoint Friday, killing two passengers and injuring 19 others, authorities said. Officials said the van went out of control and flipped over several times when the driver tried to ram a Border Patrol vehicle. The Border Patrol van was hit after it pulled alongside the other vehicle and an agent motioned for the driver to stop. As the van plunged off the highway and overturned, people went flying out. ``Bodies were laying all over - it was like a plane crash,'' said Mike Vacio, one of the first firefighters on the scene about 24 miles east of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . No one in the Border Patrol vehicle was hurt, said agency spokesman Ron Henley Ron Henley (b. December 5, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is a grandmaster of chess. Ronald Watson Henley was awarded the IM title in 1980 and the GM title in 1982. He won the grandmaster title by winning a 24-player round-robin grandmaster super-tournament in Surakarta, Denpasar, . The California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. said the van's passengers appeared to be illegal aliens, although that hadn't been confirmed. ``At this point we're more concerned about injuries than immigration status,'' said CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan spokesman Phil Konstantin. Both the Border Patrol vehicle and the van appeared to be traveling at the legal speed limit for the area, 70 miles an hour, officials said. Of the 19 people hurt in Friday's crash, one was listed in critical condition, Konstantin said. The condition of the others was not immediately available. The accident was the second deadly crash in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, in recent weeks involving vehicles crammed with people near the border. Earlier this month, eight illegal immigrants were killed and 17 injured when an overloaded pickup crashed near an immigration checkpoint in Riverside County. The checkpoints are set up on major roads north of the Mexican border to screen traffic randomly. In another case, Riverside County Sheriff's deputies were videotaped beating two immigrants April 1 after a long chase involving a van crammed with illegal immigrants. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: San Diego County sheriff's deputies guard injured vi ctims of a fatal collision near a border checkpoint. Associated Press |
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