Tom Mix Wash...
...is located on Hwy 79 about halfway between the town of Florence and Tucson, Arizona. There's a little memorial there to the cowboy movie hero, though the bronze plaque and sculpture were pried loose and stolen two years ago. Mix drove his car off a washed-out bridge into the dry river bed that now bears his name. Though he wore a seat belt, his metal luggage in the back seat flew forward and killed him. This was in 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mix
I've driven that way often. It's a lonely and scenic stretch of road, 40 miles long and dead straight with few potholes and no traffic, so you can go pretty fast. I've never seen a police car along there, either, nor picked up a cell signal. It's my preferred way of driving to Phoenix when time isn't a factor.
Yesterday, a speeding Chevy Suburban packed with 19 illegals overturned near Tom Mix Wash. Nine of them were killed. The others were injured but unable to get out of the car. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the survivors for the half hour it took help to arrive.
For the edification of those that really don't like illegals, the Star has provided a slideshow:
http://community.azstarnet.com/slideshows/flash/index.php?id=1638
The irony is that, at the end of this road, is the town of Florence, whose only industry is prisons. There are about a dozen, private and state-owned.
There are many such crashes like this, involving ordinary vehicles packed with illegals, traveling at outrageous speeds. Sometimes they take others with them when they crash; most of the time they're single vehicle accidents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mix
I've driven that way often. It's a lonely and scenic stretch of road, 40 miles long and dead straight with few potholes and no traffic, so you can go pretty fast. I've never seen a police car along there, either, nor picked up a cell signal. It's my preferred way of driving to Phoenix when time isn't a factor.
Yesterday, a speeding Chevy Suburban packed with 19 illegals overturned near Tom Mix Wash. Nine of them were killed. The others were injured but unable to get out of the car. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the survivors for the half hour it took help to arrive.
For the edification of those that really don't like illegals, the Star has provided a slideshow:
http://community.azstarnet.com/slideshows/flash/index.php?id=1638
The irony is that, at the end of this road, is the town of Florence, whose only industry is prisons. There are about a dozen, private and state-owned.
There are many such crashes like this, involving ordinary vehicles packed with illegals, traveling at outrageous speeds. Sometimes they take others with them when they crash; most of the time they're single vehicle accidents.