CLARK CO., Ill. - Three people from Kansas were involved in a single-vehicle accident earlier today, and while Illinois State Police didn't note it in their report, all three are probably illegal and your tax dollars just paid for the whole thing...including a hospital visit for one.
Unfortunately, ISP (as well as all other law enforcement entities in the state) can't ask about legal status, so we may never actually know...but the last names and the fact that the one behind the wheel didn't have a driver's license is kind of a dead giveaway.
ISP said that the accident occurred this morning (Monday, March 4) at 8:06 a.m. on Interstate 70 in Clark County.
Preliminary investigative details indicate that a silver 2001 Honda CRV being driven by the licenseless Rosemary Rivera-Saravia, 45, of Gardner, Kansas, was westbound on 70 approximately one mile east of the Martinsville exit.
According to a witness traveling behind her, the front passenger side tire of the CRV blew out, causing Rivera-Saravia to lose control of the vehicle. The CRV traveled to the right onto the shoulder, where it sideswiped a bridge support before coming to rest on the westbound shoulder.
There were two passengers in the vehicle, Addi Hernandez, 21, and Joshua Rivera, 26, also of Gardner, Kansas. Rivera was transported via ambulance to Regional Hospital in Terre Haute for minor injuries.
Rivera-Saravia was cited for No Valid Driver's License, so if in fact they are illegal, your tax dollars will, at this point, have provided her with a "provisional" driver's license number so she can be tracked through the system during the pendency of the citation hearings, and during which time she'll use that license number to obtain all kinds of things she ordinarily wouldn't, this according to sources who told us how it works in Illinois and has for a number of years.