4 Kids Dead in Minnesota School Bus Crash
Posted on February 22, 2008
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Last Tuesday, February 19, 2008, a speeding minivan ran through a stop sign, and plowed into the side of school bus, tipping it onto its side, in Cottonwood, MN. 4 kids inside the bus were killed. More details are emerging about the crash. The driver of the mini-van, Alianiss Morales, 23, is an unlicensed, illegal immigrant. She has been arrested for criminal operation of a motor vehicle. If you listen all the way to the end of the video at the link, they state that the police have released the toxicology results for the bus driver, and the pickup driver who the bus landed on… both negative. They are withholding Morales’ results. Hmm. Let’s see, she’s been arrested, withholding the toxicology results, I’m guessing she was drunk. Just a guess, just a shot in the dark here.
More information can be found here (although you need to register first). Morales is apparently not her real name, and authorities are trying to sort out exactly who she is. They do know she was cited in June, 2006 for driving without a license. According to the article, she crashed onto someone’s lawn, couldn’t shift the car back into drive, the police were called, who then cited her for not having a license.
It always seemed strange to me that school buses were not required to have seat belts. 4 dead in an accident where the bus only tipped over, albeit at high speed, is bad. That being said, the best way not to kill kids in school bus accidents in to not have drunk idiots crash into them in the middle of the afternoon.
I have an opinion about illegal immigration, but I’m going to keep it to myself, as I would like to sell some DVD’s or other consulting services, and don’t want to upset anyone. It just seems to me as a group, illegals have a greater likelihood of crashing into someone, being drunk, or both. I have no facts to back that up… in the story I posted earlier this week about the 8 people killed in the drag racing incident, the driver involved was a true-blue American. Nevertheless, my gut tells me for a group that allegedly only accounts for 5-7% of the U.S. population, there sure seems to be a lot of these stories. If you’re going to sneak into the country, is it too much to ask that you learn to drive, and don’t go around with a BAC of .15?
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