As Freedom Folks would say, 100% preventable

From AZFamily.com

Hit-and-run suspect is illegal immigrant, had DUI

10:33 PM Mountain Standard Time on Monday, October 22, 2007

By Marissa Wingate / 3TV reporter

A memorial marks the spot where 5-year-old Annabelle Sandoval died Sunday.

She was riding in a truck with her father and her three siblings when police say 27-year-old Wilson Alba-Cano pulled out in front of the family near 7th Avenue and Roeser in Phoenix.

According to police, Alba-Cano, an illegal immigrant who had been arrested before for DUI, was drunk at the time of the hit-and-run.

"It is very heartbreaking," said Gay Cox.

Gay and Tony Cox watched the family's truck flip four times.

"The father was trying to hustle three kids off to the side so they wouldn't get hit by any oncoming cars," Gay said.

"I was just hoping that it was not someone under the truck because you could tell it was a human being just like crying out," said hit-and-run witness Angel Guzman.

Guzman ran to help after witnessing the hit-and-run.

Annabelle was pinned under the truck. At least two of the children had been ejected. A 3-year-old broke his leg.

Witnesses rolled the overturned truck off its side.

"(They) just flipped it back over so it would get off that little girl," Tony Cox said.

Police say Alba-Cano drove off after hitting the truck and soon crashed into a front yard before fleeing.

Witnesses reportedly followed Alba-Cano and held him until police arrived and arrested him. He's charged with manslaughter.

Investigators tell us the children were not wearing seatbelts.

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Get off your butts people, and let your representatives know we want a fence on the border. And before you say it wont work, consider a little bit of truth first:

CLOSING OFF BORDERS: As U.S. spends on gadgets, town finds a fence works fine

Click the link and read it.

Its all BUSH' FAULT!!!!!!!!!

I can just hear it now (sarcasm intended)

Bridge falls into Mississippi River

By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer
22 minutes ago



MINNEAPOLIS - The entire span of an interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour Wednesday, sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water.

The Interstate 35W bridge, which stretches between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was in the midst of being repaired when it broke into several huge sections.

The Homeland Security Department had received no indications Wednesday night that the collapse was related to an act of terrorism, department spokesman Russ Knocke said in Washington.

"We continue to monitor the situation. At this time, there's no indication of a nexus to terrorism," Knocke said.

It was not clear how many people were injured. WCCO-AM reported that one body was seen being pulled from the area, covered with a blue sheet.

A burning truck and a school bus clung to one slanted slab, while at least eight cars and a truck were submerged in the river.

The bus had just crossed the bridge before it crumpled into pieces, and broadcast reports indicated the children on the bus exited out the back door.

Ramon Houge told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that he was on his way home from work on the bridge when heard a rumbling noise, saw the ground collapse and cars go down.

Traffic was bumper to bumper and hundreds of people would have been involved, he said. He said cars backed up as best they could and he parked in a construction zone and was finally able to turn around and drive off the bridge. "It didn't seem like it was real," he said.

Dozens of vehicles were scattered and stacked on top of each other amid the rubble. Some people were stranded on parts of the bridge that aren't completely in the water.

Local television stations captured video of injured people being carried up the riverbank. There was no official word on injuries, but dozens of rescue vehicles were there. Divers were also in the water.

Gregory Wernick Sr., Rockford, Ill., drove over the bridge shortly before the collapse. He stopped to get a drink nearby and heard commotion so he went back.

"I figure I crossed about 10 minutes before it happened," he said. "That's just too close to call."

He was standing about 200 feet away on top of a parking ramp with large group of people.

"I've never seen anything like this," he said.

The Homeland Security Department had received no indications Wednesday night that the collapse was an act of terrorism, department spokesman Russ Knocke said in Washington.

"We continue to monitor the situation. At this time, there's no indication of a nexus to terrorism," Knocke said.

The arched bridge, which was built in 1967, rises about 64 feet above the river. Workers have been repairing the 40-year-old bridge's surface as part of improvements along that stretch of the interstate, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on its Web site.

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I can hear it now....Bush is to blame. Something about how he conspired to kill however many people. Or maybe its because he didnt fund some pork project in the past and therefore they werent able to spend an extra 2 bucks on a special bolt.

Give it time...the moonbats will blame him for it