According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast.
“The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,” Baird’s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who “declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.”
Baird wrote that Capitol Police Patrol Division units, who are trained in driving under the influence cases, were not allowed to perform basic field sobriety tests on the Congressman. Instead, two sergeants, who also responded to the accident, proceeded to confer with the Capitol Police watch commander on duty and then “ordered all of the Patrol Division Units to leave the scene and that they were taking over.”
Baird said he had been advised that after the officers departed, Capitol Police “House Division officials” gave Kennedy a ride home.
Kennedy’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Check out another recent accident that Patches Kennedy was involved in - and hushed up by the media - here: HowieCarr.com
**Don't miss Patches' chicken-scratch writing on page 6!**
Interesting link. I notice that Kennedy was driving a Ford Crown Victoria and the owner was Friends of Pat Kennedy Inc. It must be good to be a Congressman and charge all your expenses to your PAC.
Wow, that scribble looks like the work of a drunken sot -- if that's his 'normal' handwriting, unimpaired, then he has just about the worst handwriting I've ever seen.
Sounds like the twit turned left just in front of the oncoming driver who had no chance to stop in time????? You have to cut it awfully close to have any chance of getting hit that way - I've been driving for 30 years and I've never come remotely close to that kind of an accident...... but then I'm not a drunken sot who considers himself above the law and above all other citizens.............