Victim of a man who entered the country illegally

Alien, non-citizen – Whatever the description is today.

It was car crash in 2007, and no one was injured. My pickup was damaged to almost totaled, the main damage such that the driver side door would not open, the point of collision bending and otherwise constricting the fender and door.

Despite lack of personal injury, though, the fact remains that had the illegal been driving only a few mph faster than the 30mph impact speed, or had I been driving slower than 30mph, the alien’s car would have rammed the driver’s door and caused injury to the driver – me.

The collision happened at an intersection in North Little Rock, Ark. I was driving west; the illegal was driving west. The traffic signal was green. When I was in the center of the intersection, the illegal made a left turn and hit my pickup.

I called the police. The illegal did not speak English. My guess is he had been told green meant right of way. The light was green on his side, so in his illegal mind, he had right of way. My guess is that although the illegal had a Missouri license, he had not had a driver’s test.

He was given a traffic ticket by North Little Rock Police.

A couple of years before the crash, Arkansas State Police reported that more than 50 percent of traffic accidents in Sevier County were caused by persons illegally in this country. Sevier County had a chicken processing plant at the time. The county population and that of DeQueen was increasingly Hispanic.