Posted on 04/18/2007 5:38:22 PM PDT by Enchante
It was an ominous tale — an erratic driver in a red pickup racing wildly along the nation's busiest toll road sends the governor's sport utility vehicle careening into a guard rail.
But that story, relayed hours after Gov. Jon S. Corzine was critically injured, has been debunked by a new state police report detailing how his driver was dashing with emergency lights flashing at 91 mph in a 65 mph zone. The alleged erratic driver wasn't a villain but a young man trying to get out of the way of the governor's onrushing SUV.
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Corzine was heading to the governor's mansion April 12 for a meeting with Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team when he crashed on the Garden State Parkway north of Atlantic City. His SUV was in the left lane with its emergency lights flashing when a red pickup tried to get out of its way.
But the pickup's right wheels went onto the grassy highway shoulder, and the driver overcorrected, swerving back on the road. That set off a chain reaction: A white pickup truck swerved to avoid the red truck, struck Corzine's sport utility vehicle and sent it careening into a guard rail.
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This epitomizes the sad state of affairs in this democratic strongheld.
My husband used to drive up it any day he didn't take the train to work.
I could see how somebody could be VERY surprised by an overtaking vehicle doing 90 plus. If you were on one of those short curves, you wouldn't see it until it was right on top of you.
Yes, great minds..... as soon as I’d read it happened on GSP I wondered aloud about the speed of the Gov’s motorcade, whether any vehicle(s) hit a soft shoulder at high speed, etc. That’s a much worse roadway for driving 90+ mph in dim conditions (and wet, from what I’ve read) than any Interstate..... lucky there weren’t more serious injuries or even deaths. Sympathy to the Gov who’s the only critical injured plus the usual MSM bias has been preventing a serious look at the circumstances. Hope the state police will be forced to do a real investigation and report, but of course in a corrupt cesspool like NJ that’s always an iffy matter......
The truth shall set you free.
two wrongs have resulted in a right.
Yes, it was “modern” in the 1930s but quite narrow and winding by standards of the later Interstate Highway system. NY, CT, and NJ have some of those 1930s era “parkways” with bad shoulders, low narrow stone bridges, bad sight lines and curves, etc. They were good 70 years ago compared to the alternatives, but they are quite substandard for any driving over 40-50 mph.
what do we know about our media?
you can’t trust our media.
typical...
We have the elite and the masses. Corzine clearly considers him among the former, completely and totally above the law. And I bet he doesn't pay a single dime for any element of the laws he broke, unlike a whole bunch of plebian Joiseyites, at least some of whom elected this piece of work.
"When the Big Guy is gone, he can't do anything for anybody."
. . . could be the motto for New Jersey.
Why would you call it that? That’s ridiculous.
A reporter should get all the EZ-Pass toll records for Corzines vehicle for the last year. Then calculate speed between toll booth receipts.
I bet we find the crippled Governor usually travels 100 plus. That 91 was a slow day.
Then gather same info on all governors, and find the most abusive scum who has been putting our lives at risk.
Where was the emergency? Isnt it against the law to use emergency equipment for non emergency situations?
whoops, dual posting, apparently AP or SFGate changed the title and I didn’t find it in the search. Please post only to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819602/posts
My understanding is ole Governor “Crash” Corzine wasn’t wearing his seat belt either.
The poor kid in the Red Pick up. I bet he was scared to death on the highway.
Then scared to death he would be prosecuted.
Then Insulted, with the state police saying he was not intelligent enough to know he caused the crashed, so they let him go.
That kid is now having the last laugh!!!!
Further, I'll bet he hangs it all on the trooper who was driving. I can see Corzine ranting "Screw the traffic!! Step on it dammit, I GOTTA get to that Imus interview!!!"
I signed my letter “Speed Racer”, and I challenged the Guv to a race when he gets better.
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