MEXICAN TRUCK EXPLODES 37 DEAD

I thought something like this was going to happen, however, I didn't think it would be that soon. I'd also would like to know about who all were in the truck and also who was killed.

I want to clarify something. The Senate is talking about the Mexican trucks, not this specific incident. I don't know if they are even aware of it yet.

john larsen said: Not saying glad people got killed, just glad it happened there and not in a populated U. S. city.

It is truly a shame that people have to die, regardless of nationality, before anyone in the government takes notice. Thing is, I would suspect no ordinary trucks of any kind (aside from furniture delivery vans and catering trucks) frequent the neighborhoods of the rich and infamous of our government and our country. There is less risk to them, leaving them with a "so what?" mentality.

It is amazing to me how fast this country is deteriorating this past year. How could we be so blind?

martha501 said: On Mexican trucks: 37 killed near Sacramento Mexico. Truck carrying mining explosives

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hope this is the link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20689768/

Makes you feel safe knowing they are on the roads with our wifes and kids.

Randy Grider, editor of Truckers News magazine, however, said Mexican trucks with hazardous materials aren’t included in the new program.

And how, exactly, is anyone to know the contents of the trucks when they cannot be inspected inside or out?  For all our authorities will know, they could be packed with illegals, drugs or explosives.

Mining equipment?? maybe....regardless, we would never be told if the truck was headed into the USA.  If THIS don't wake up our politicans nothing will !

Even if this truly was an accident, it's just a matter of time until a semi load of illegals being smuggled into the USA has a terrible wreck. Plus carrying explosives...we have a rolling bomb!  We have to stop this NOW !

Here is something else to think about, this will be on Lou Dobbs tonight...

Officials at the El Paso border crossing are putting your
security at risk -- they're putting business and commerce
first. An official memo, obtained by Lou Dobbs Tonight, shows
that agents were told not to inspect cars when the lines became
too long. We'll have that shocking report tonight.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Don't wait for the Big Boom!

More of what our Government wants for America.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/02/mexico.rebels.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText

Is this what Prez Bush wants to happen here in our country? This will happen for sure plus many other lives will be lost due to unsafe trucks, drunk mexican drivers, drugged mexican drivers and who knows what else. Have you seen those trucks and cars those people drive? Excluding the ones that live here in America getting everything free from the taxpayers. They drive more expensive vehicles than we do, they can afford them while we pay their bills, buy their food and give them money. The sorry traitors living in Washington and other places should have to deal with these people on a daily basis.

34 Die In Mexican Truck Wreck

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico - A dynamite-laden truck exploded after colliding with another vehicle on a busy highway in northern Mexico’s coal country, killing at least 34 people, including three reporters at the scene, state and federal officials said.

Authorities said the two vehicles crashed into each other Sunday evening, drawing a crowd of curious onlookers as well as a small army of police, soldiers, emergency officials and journalists.

Shortly after the crowd arrived, the wreckage caught fire, and the dynamite exploded, sending a ball of fire into the sky that consumed nearby cars and left a 10-by-40 foot crater in the concrete, said Maximo Alberto Neri Lopez, a federal police official.

He said more than 150 people were injured.

The force of the explosion blew out the windows of a passenger bus a quarter-mile away.

The dead included three newspaper reporters from the nearby city of Monclova, said Luis Horacio de Hoyos of the Coahuila state Attorney General’s Office.

It was unclear if the explosive truck’s driver was among the dead. Early reports said he might have fled.

Coahuila state has a large mining industry, most of it in coal.

Safety of Mexican trucks questioned
The explosion raised further questions about the safety of Mexican trucks.

This weekend, Mexico began sending its first tractor-trailers across U.S. territory under a long-delayed, NAFTA-mandated program. Before, Mexican trucks were limited to 25-mile zone along the border.

Many in the U.S. fought the change, arguing that Mexican trucks are unsafe.

Randy Grider, editor of Truckers News magazine, however, said Mexican trucks with hazardous materials aren’t included in the new program.

“I think it would be a very long time before the border would open to hazardous loads,” he said.

The truck that exploded in Coahuila did not appear to be headed for the U.S. It had recently left an Orica explosives plant and was headed west to Coquimatlan, Colima, a federal police officer who was not authorized to give his name told The Associated Press by phone.

A woman who answered the phone at Orica’s offices in Monclova said all company officials were at a meeting, and she could not comment. The company is based in Australia and has operations in 50 countries across six continents.

At first it was reported the truck had TNT for mining in it.

Now it was fuel oil and fertalizer, like Oklahoma City, for mining.

Anyone know of fuel oil and fertalizer used in mining?