A Goodyear woman, 69, died in a collision Sunday morning near Arizona 85 and Broadway Road in Buckeye, a Department of Public Safety officer said.
Patricia Pendergast was broadsided going west on Broadway Road when she failed to stop at an Arizona 85 intersection stop sign, DPS spokesman Bart Graves said.
Pendergast's vehicle was hit on the right side by Phoenix resident Jose Del La Torre Ponce, 49, who was driving a van traveling south. Del La Torre Ponce was taken to a local hospital with chest pain.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/swvalley/articles/2011/02/28/20110228buckeye-fatal-crash-woman-identified-abrk.html#ixzz1FP1VEBRS
Thanks for pointing out in bold font that she must have intentionally disregarded the law, probably because her son is an inmate. Why else would this story be on this site?
Have you been to that intersection since the construction on splitting the 85 began? I almost ran that stop sign a couple of times myself; it's easy to miss.
The post above does not state the victim "intentionally disregarded the law", it simply shows in bold print the cause of the wreck: it was not that the victim's vehicle had stopped and on-coming traffic had been out of control, the victim's car had rolled through the stop and in to on-coming traffic flow. Yes, her son IS an inmate. He lives at Lewis. The victim did live in the west valley and had visited numerous times, she was likely familiar with the stop sign. What the above story does not report (because it cannot fairly do so, even when the majority of the story is cut/paste from the Arizona Republic) is if there had been any distractions (cell phone, radio commercial, bug in vehicle cabin, itch), what the sunshine on the windshield looked like, if the driver had been predisposed in thought, etc.
It was a terrible accident that took someone's life, and affected another dozen directly.
It is on this site because the controller of this site deemed it important to do so, many people drove past the carnage of the accident and wondered about it.
Hmm, it certainly looks like the bold is unnecessary if only trying to show the cause of the wreck. Taking into account the attitude and mentality of some of the things posted here, I'm inclined to say it certainly appears that the author wanted there to be no doubt that the blame (not just the cause) was on the inmate's mother.
That aside, it makes sense that some would be curious. To the detectives out there, though, the sun wouldn't have been in her eyes since she was going west in the morning, it would have been at her back.