Yesterday we innocently suggested in this space that it might be a "newsy" day.

We had no idea.

Within minutes of writing that, there was news of a terrible crash on the Santa Fe relief road in which four people died and eight more were seriously injured when a van flipped over after the driver apparently fell asleep.

Though no official identification has been made yet, it appears that all the van's occupants were from Mexico -- and circumstantial evidence would suggest that the passengers, at least, may have been illegal.

The van, with Oklahoma license plates, appeared to be headed from Phoenix to Atlanta, but what it was doing around Santa Fe -- which is certainly not on any direct smuggling route -- is anybody's guess.

As the Journal Northern Bureau's Martin Salazar wrote in this morning's Albuquerque Journal, it's unfortunately not an uncommon kind of accident.

It's just another tragic reminder that something needs to be done about immigration reform -- and the sooner the better.

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