Don't play in traffic.
A Mexican national was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer while attempting to flee from ICE officers across a busy Florida highway, officials said.
The gruesome accident occurred after the 28-year-old man and three others had a run-in with immigration agents around 7 a.m. in St. Johns, according to Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan.
The four were approached by agents while stopped inside the parking lot of a gas station in St. Augustine, Florida, Bryan said.
The crew attempted to flee from ICE, with the unidentified Mexican migrant sprinting across State Road 16 — where he was soon after hit by the truck, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Mexican migrant struck and killed by semi-truck while fleeing ICE in Florida
Even in Mexico, it is well known that a speeding truck with the right of way will always beat a human being trying to occupy the same space at the same time. Now, rather than being deported back to Mexico, he will be exported in a box.
Life is truly about making choices, smart ones. And paying consequences for the stupid ones.
The person I feel sorry for here is the truck driver. Not his fault but he was behind the wheel and a person is dead. That can mess a person up for a long time.
I wonder if he wasn't the Mexican equivalent of a far-holler hillbilly. In Peru particularly in the outer provinces there used to be a terrible problem with country people unused to traffic getting injured or killed because they'd close their eyes, put their hands over their ears, and dart into traffic - on the theory I guess that "if I can't see or hear it, it won't hit me." It's hard to believe it's still a problem today with the ubiquity of screens but back in 1980 it was still occasionally happening, usually to children, and it was pitiful.