Film director Bob Clark, known best for his films “A Christmas Story” and “Porky’s” was killed Wednesday by a drunk driver. Also killed was Clark’s 22 year old son Ariel. Here’s the WaPo story about it. They describe the drunk driver thusly:
The driver of the other vehicle, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles was arrested and booked for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol and gross vehicular manslaughter. He was being held on $100,000 bail.
Only thing is, Velazquez-Nava is not “of Los Angeles”. He’s “of Mexico”, in the USA by way of the hole in the fence. He’s what you might call an undocumented non-American. An Unassimilated. An Immigrant. Or more politely, an Illegal Alien. Actually, they say “Illegal Immigrant” – I guess that’s the accepted PC term now. Whatever you want to call him, nowhere in the WaPo story do they mention that. Even the LA Times mentions it in their gruesome depiction of the murder.
The high-speed collision left the mangled vehicles about 100 feet apart amid a long trail of debris, including parts of wheels, undercarriages and axles.
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The passenger sides of both vehicles sustained the heaviest damage, indicating that Velazquez-Nava may have swerved toward the ocean and Clark the opposite way as they collided at high speed.
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Police haven’t finished their investigation, Fischer said, but it appears the Yukon entered the southbound lane and Clark, 67, swerved left in an attempt to avoid the collision. The first of several calls to 911 came at 2:24 a.m., Fischer said. Paramedics arrived shortly after. The Clarks, who were pinned in the wreckage, were pronounced dead at 2:34 a.m. Fischer said he didn’t know whether the Clarks were wearing seat belts or whether their vehicle air bags had deployed.
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Velazquez-Nava, who was wearing a seat belt, got out of the SUV and was walking around after the collision, Fischer said. His passenger, Lydia Mora, 29, of Azusa, was treated for minor injuries and released. Velazquez-Nava had a blood alcohol level of 0.24 percent, three times the 0.08 legal limit for driving.
Velazquez-Nava shouldn’t have been in this country, not only because he was here illegally, but because he had already been arrested and sentenced in a prostitution ring two years back and should have been deported then. If we were a little more vigilant about our immigration laws and a little less worried about offending the criminals in our midst, Bob and Ariel Clark would be alive today.
