Quick Update

More news is coming in about the Amish killed on Tuesday.

The Jay County Sheriff finally released a mugshot of the semi driver, Bekzhan Beishekeev.

Just to make it worse, the driver was arrested not for the accident, at least not initially, but because he had an outstanding bench warrant for something else.

According to the Jay County Sheriff’s Office, Beishekeev was arrested through a bench warrant on Tuesday night, meaning that his charges are not currently related to the crash. A bench warrant is used for individuals who fail to comply with certain court-ordered measures, usually in another county or state.

We don’t know yet what the bench warrant was for, it is just another person driving a giant death machine on our roads that has no business being on the road and no business being in America in the first place.

There is also the first images of the accident. When something like this happens, Amish always want to go look at the scene. When a close friend of ours was killed in a buggy collision (see: Just That Fast ) her family kept the wrecked buggy for a while so people could look at it. It is just one of those cultural things.

You can see from the wreck that the front of the semi is trashed. The driver looks like he didn’t get a scratch of course.

Now note the logo on the side of the cab. I was looking at something else and ran across this story about “Chameleon Carrier Networks”: 4 Fatality Indiana Truck Crash Exposes Chameleon Carrier Network, Again. The logo belongs to “Sam Express Inc.” owned by Saipidin Tutashov.

I don’t know the intricacies of the trucking regulatory system but the gist is that these companies shift DOT numbers around to different shell companies. Also the company this guy apparently drove for is shady as hell.

Every one of those officer names, Tutashov, Zhalaldin Uulu, Musaev, Murzapazylov, Arystankulov, is Kyrgyz. These are names from Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation whose phone number (+996) appears publicly on Sam Express’s website and social media.

It doesn’t stop in Illinois. Sam Express Corp is registered as a foreign corporation in California with a registered agent named Ruslanbek Olzhebaev, yet another Kyrgyz name on the paperwork.

The driver who killed four people on Tuesday? Bekzhan Beishekeev. Also a Kyrgyz name.

This is a pipeline.

It sounds like these guy ram their trucks around like pinballs and then shuffle the paperwork so they can keep on driving. It is very interesting reading, RTWT.

A little more. The man that died, Henry Eicher, had 14 children. One was stillborn and now he and two of his sons are gone. Fortunately the community is usually amazing about caring for widows, and having a huge family like that means plenty of support.

The man driving the work van is 55 year old Donald Stipp. He was pretty banged up but survived, he has a GoFundMe to help cover his expenses as he will be laid up for some time. I sent a few bucks to help a White guy pay his bills.

Likely he survived while four others didn’t because he was probably wearing a seatbelt and Amish usually refuse to do so. They have a weird cultural aversion to seatbelts. I don’t get it, maybe it is a “trusting in God” thing but it seems foolish to me.

According to the story I linked directly above, almost 1 in 5 truck drivers in America are foreign born. That is a recipe for disaster. We have enough shitty drivers in America, we sure don’t need to be importing foreigners who probably barely speak and read English (if at all).

The cost of foreign drivers is far more than financial as a grieving widow and mother prepares to bury her husband and two of her sons.