Tragic, high speed chases can be the most deadly. They always remind of the 1992 one involving Border Patrol and a van full of illegal immigrants.
A Chevrolet Suburban fleeing Border Patrol agents crashed at high speed into a passing car outside a high school Tuesday, killing four students and a father driving his son to school and injuring the 13 occupants of the camper.
The accident occurred just after 7:30 a.m. as horrified students arrived for classes at Temecula Valley High School. Wreckage and bodies were strewn across a busy intersection in this fast-growing, semirural community in southern Riverside County, renewing controversy over Border Patrol policy on high-speed chases.
The stolen Suburban carrying 13 suspected illegal immigrants ran a red light and smashed into an Acura Legend with such force that it tore the smaller vehicle in half, killing the father, his son and a teen-age friend, authorities said.
“There was metal and glass and rubber and people . . . all went up in the sky,” said Jason Boles, a driver who witnessed the crash. “There was notebook paper all over the place so I knew there were kids involved. And I could see the dad in the front seat of the Acura with his suit on, and he was dead.”The careening truck also struck and killed two students walking on the sidewalk: a brother and sister whose mother, a reporter, learned of their deaths as she was covering the accident for her newspaper.
“The kids were on the sidewalk just where they were supposed to be and they got killed,” said Riverside County Sheriff’s Investigator Henry Sawicki
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