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To: epicure who wrote (220798)	9/22/2007 12:42:16 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794358

I think you can find just as many accidents perpetrated by U.S. citizens. The heartbreaker is that a lot of the people that cause those accidents manage to sneak back into Mexico......or where ever....... and are never prosecuted for their crimes. Who are the safest drivers? Are they legal U.S. residents, or do we all fit into categories as described by the people who study automobile accidents? I spent some time looking and found tons of stuff at wiki. The subject deserves its own thread.

To: epicure who wrote (220798)	9/22/2007 1:03:03 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 794358

can you find some statistics on mexican truck drivers who drive goods within the 25 mile limit in the states? I have tried to see if these drivers are any more accident prone than professional drivers in the states. I would think reviewing the accident rate to million miles for mexican drivers delivering goods with the 25 mile limit compared to professional driver statistics per million mile would be a good measure of risk. opening up mexico for direct delivery vs having to break down the loads and shift trucks and drivers once they cross the border these statistics could support or show why the 25 mile should or should not be expanded. If not measurable difference i think teamsters lose the argument about unsafe trucks and drivers who cannot read english and are unsafe.

To: epicure who wrote (220798)	9/23/2007 12:33:18 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794358

Most interesting site...thanks for posting it. The story about the UofC football player regarding the several years of truly bad news for him and his family, is indeed terrible. It makes me wonder that even if the driver who hit and evidently ran back to Mexico, would have been any better a driver if he had a license issued without any proof of who he was.....He had no insurance. He left John in a heap and left him to die. There must be a special place in h*ll for people like that, no matter where he came from. NO ONE should have the right to drive unless they have proof of insurance for anyone they hit. A review of State Police auto accident reports for 2002 through 2004 for that area of the Eastern Shore also revealed that of the 179 accidents involving Hispanic laborers: 75% of the drivers had no auto insurance. Nearly all of the vehicles driven by migrants were registered to other drivers. 93% of the vehicles had false out-of-state tags. In 2003 and 2004, 128 of the 395 people, 32.4%, arrested on DUI charges were Hispanic, a rate six times greater than the Hispanic portion of the population.