19 people fit into an SUV?! 9 dead and 10 injured in SUV accident

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FLORENCE, AZ -- At least nine people were killed on an Arizona highway south of Phoenix on Thursday, according to Department of Public Safety officer Carmen Figueroa.

Ten others were apparently injured in the wreck along State Route 79, south of Florence.

Officials said as many as 19 people were in a GMC Suburban when it went off the road about 8:30 a.m.

The SUV reportedly drove through a wash, rolled over several times and landed on the roof, crushing it.

DPS officials said they believe all the patients were U.S. border crossers and suspected undocumented immigrants.

RAW: DPS Lt. Mike Corbin discusses the fatal accident

Survivors were flown to hospitals in Phoenix and Tucson. Figueroa said all the victims were adults.

Two of the nine victims were women and the other seven were men, according to DPS spokesman Bart Graves.

At least three were said to be in critical condition.

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center Spokesman Craig Fischer said his Phoenix hospital received four survivors and will possibly receive additional patients later.

Judy Keane, a spokeswoman for Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, also confirmed two survivors were treated there but could not give any information about their condition.

The highway has now reopened after being closed for several hours.

At this time, the cause of the collision is unknown, but witnesses told officers that the Suburban was traveling at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control and the vehicle ran off the road.

No other vehicles were involved in the accident, according to Graves.

Investigators from IIMPACT (Illegal Immigration Prevention & Apprehension Co-op Team) were at the scene on Thursday afternoon, conducting their own investigation into the occupants of the vehicle.

Big latin family...extended members and friends as well. Hope the survivors recover well...the greiving is';t going to be easy.

Not your average SUV. My Ex's parents have one on their farm. The thing is massive. 19 is a lot, but not inconceivable.

2-3-3 would be the seating arrangement, and there would be some room behind the last row of seats for luggage, etc. I suspect they may have set all the back seats down flat to crowd them into the flat space. I'm also surprised the vehicle wasn't dragging the ground with that many people inside.

My father-in-law was joy-riding with friends several decades ago. They were packed in so tightly that they survived going off a shallow cliff, according to him.

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My forefathers came to this nation legally and through their hard work, blood, sweat and tears gave this country an identity. You know what that identity is? (Don't answer its rhetorical) It's me an AMERICAN. We no longer need other countries trash. They come here, realize that the gold’s already been picked off the streets and eventually corrupt our society with drugs, gangs, violence and economic burden. Who pays for their kids when they go to school? Who pays for there emergency room visits? Who pays? Me and you, LEGAL, tax paying Americans. God Bless America………Vote McCain!

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I think we should go invade Mexico and take over its beaches and land and build nice houses over there. Then all the Mexicans will be flocking back saying its there country and they own it ha ha!!

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Your sick to think we have enough to take of you and all of your cousins and their cousins. THEY DELT THEIR OWN CARD WE DID NOT! It is not a sad in my America. You have to earn respect and because of so many millions breaking our laws I do not think that respect will happen in my lifetime I hope. Pack’em up and ship’em out rawhide.eehah

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Why waste the money to fly them to a hospital? Just fly them back to the border and drop them on the Mexican side and let their hospitals take care of them and the dead also, so they can bury them. Why should we pay to heal them and THEN send them back to Mexico? Just so they can sneak across again? Send them back all broken and with luck they won't be around to sneak back again or else they won't be able to walk, but will have to CRAWL! OH by the way, KEEP the driver if they survived and prosecute them for 9 counts of FIRST DEGREE PREMEDITATED MURDER!
If they were illegal aliens...I say don't waste even ONE aspirin on them...let them rot...

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These are sick people.

Chron.com has tons of them.

a music festival back when I was a crazy teen

LOL :rofl:

About the same size as a Mazda Miata..

We had to inhale in shifts. :)