Editor’s Note: Since this story is hitting the blogosphere, I thought it pertinent to include it with the caveat that this is simply an accident and has nothing to do with the cross border program or anything else. Simply peoples stupidity and need to get in a hurry.
One of my biggest complaints about crossing these bridges back into the United States is people cannot stay in line on the bridge. The see or think they see a hole in the line and they go for it without thinking. They crowd the big trucks on the bridges where commercial vehicles share the bridge with 4 wheelers, passing them on the right, getting in the blind spots of the big rigs.
It amazes me that this is only the second in 15 years!
At least four people were killed in a fiery wreck Thursday night on the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas, police said.Pharr police Lt. Lupe Salinas said the accident involved two 18-wheelers and three other vehicles. The accident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. on the American side of the 3.2-mile bridge, which spans the U.S.- Mexico border.
Three people died after their pickup truck plunged from the bridge and landed on a road below, Salinas said. Another person died in a collision with one of the tractor-trailers.
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