themonitor.com
MISSION, Texas -- A minivan smashed into a deputy constable’s cruiser Wednesday afternoon in what proved to be the deadly culmination of a daylong rash of police chases around the region.
Officers from multiple agencies were pursuing a suspected drug smuggler through western Hidalgo County on Expressway 83, when the blue Chevrolet Astro he was driving struck the cruiser just after 4 p.m. near the intersection with Inspiration Road.
Investigators later determined that there were no drugs but that the minivan was carrying 19 illegal immigrants, including both adults and children, many of whom suffered life threatening injuries.
Posted by tyne at October 26, 2007