New Jersey - Corzine on breathing tube and facing long recovery

The Star-Ledger ^ | April, Friday the 13th, 2007 | Deborah Howlett, et al

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

The duration and distance were short, but in those dizzying seconds and feet, Gov. Jon Corzine suffered injuries serious enough to land him in intensive care with a breathing tube down his throat and a doctor declaring him lucky to be alive.

The 60-year-old governor underwent about two hours of surgery last night to repair multiple broken bones, including 12 ribs and a femur that protruded through the skin of his thigh following a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township.

With two of his adult children by his beside, Corzine, sedated and on intravenous painkillers, remains in intensive care in Cooper University Hospital in Camden this morning. He required seven pints of blood, officials said, and is using a breathing tube to ease his respiration with the broken ribs, and a broken breastbone.

The governor also suffered a broken collarbone and lower back bone and a flap-like cut on his skull, which was a plastic surgeon stitched back together.

Corzine spokesman Anthony Coley said the governor did not appear to have suffered brain or spinal cord damage.

~ snip ~

[the OlLine Rebel]

If you read 1 of the descriptions posted here, you’ll see it’s not a direct accident. More like swerving to avoid another swerver. 2nd-hand domino effect, if you like.

I also heard that on the news this morning. Sounds like a case of sheer idiocy/ignorance to me, not necessarily asininity like a drunk driver. I don’t think there’s anyone to charge.

[apocalypto]

They might blame it on Imus yet.

[Darnright]

>The governor does not usually wear a seat belt, <

I bet he will from now on.

[ZULU]

You can’t argue that a lot of Americans would still be alive today, if it wasn’t our non-existant border security.

We should take a leaf from the Mexicans - with the way they patrol their SOUTHERN borders.

[apocalypto]

I like your attitude.

[lawdude]

“You don’t have laws making you a criminal for not wearing a belt? Lucky you.”

Yes, AZ does have seatbelt laws. But I was wearing a seatbelt 30 years before the law came in.

I do not want to be burdened with the millions it costs to support the idiots that are paralyzed from accidents while not wearing SBs. I bet there are a lot more of those situations than of people wearing SBs that are paralyzed.

But do as you please. Don’t bother me a bit!

[DCPatriot]

See #151

After raising the question about the legal status of the 'other driver', I recalled the Bill O'Reilly/Geraldo Rivera screaming match the other evening.

Fact is, if Sharpton and Jackson had kept their cool, Corzine wouldn't be breathing thru a tube today.

[the OlLine Rebel]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816648/posts?page=139#139

“I do not want to be burdened with the millions it costs to support the idiots that are paralyzed from accidents while not wearing SBs.”

Your complaint is exactly what I was referring to in there.

It’s specious because everything in the world affects everything else. You cannot use that domino-effect argument to create laws “because it might raise my insurance”. Just like the zoning laws of petty neighborhood tyrants: “it might lower my property value”. Too bad. Bottom line is, it’s MY property. There are no natural rights to your bottom line being “affected”.

I don’t understand why this is so hard to understand. It is the liberal mindset creeping in. It upsets me (but doesn’t surprise me, living in MD all my life) that liberals are slowly subtly influencing the conservative mind. Hence so many “moderates”.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Being that I am as usual the “radical” on this thread who is shocking everyone with my rebellious scofflaw anti-seatbelt-law ways, are you *series* or being sarcastic? ;-)

[Inspectorette]

No, I'm not a doctor - I don't even play one on TV ;-) But you as much as declared him dead. I agree with you that it's very serious, but your basic point was that he already has one foot in the grave because he's 60 years old.

My contention is that overall general health and physical condition would play a greater factor in his recovery than an arbitrary number, i.e., 60. That being said, I don't know if he already had any underlying health issues. I hope not.

[apocalypto]

You might have been sarcastic, but I know someone who had a similar experience and became a nicer person. And yes, I like to see people shake up things. You cannot imagine how fed up I am with political correctness.

[commonguymd]

I didn’t declare him dead so don’t exaggerate. It is deadly - big difference. You contention was with me and what I said, not about recovery regarding physical condition so don’t lie. If you don’t know, then don’t act like you do.

Move along.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Some people do change.

And I am horribly fed up with PC, including “we must DO IT FOR YOUR OWN GOOD”.

[commonguymd]

Please don’t send anymore uncalled for, slanderous, and unsolicited private mails please.

[Inspectorette]

You have freepmail.

[Inspectorette]

Slanderous???

Here's the entire text of my private reply to you:

"You are rude and arrogant - if this is your bedside manner every time one of your patients might deign to take issue with a statement you’ve made, then I feel sorry for them.

Move along, indeed. I shall not engage in an argument with you - you’re obviously missing the entire point of my original statement. Please don’t respond to this message, and:

Have a nice day."

Slanderous??

[phillyfanatic]

The Dems in the corrupt NJ Dem totalitarian potentate have been stealing elections even before the Torch and now Corzine, who bought his election wanted some cred with the Ladies of Rutgers and not wearing a seat belt, a PC sin, he is injured. I hope he recovers quickly in time for him to defend NJ’s Dem policies which have bankrupted the taxpayers and allowed crooked jurists to prevail in N.Jersey. What a guy!

[LNewman]

From Philadelphia Daily News:

Gov. Corzine may be in wheelchair for months;
Red pickup hunt intensifies

A state police spokesman, Sgt. Stephen Jones, said investigators now believe the vehicle that set in motion events causing the crash is a red Ford F-150 or F-250 pickup from the late-1980s or early '90s, with a cap on the back. The vehicle has New Jersey plates, Jones said. Investigators were reviewing Parkway toll plaza surveillance cameras to find the license number and owner. ...

Any additional witnesses are asked to call the State Police Bass River Station at 609-296-0503.

...

Witnesses told police that the man behind the wheel of the red pickup - the vehicle responsible for the crash - had been seen driving erratically before the accident. The driver of the Dodge Ram stopped and gave statements to police. At mile maker 43.5 point, the Garden State Parkway is a four-lane highway divided by a wide grassy median bisected by a metal guardrail. Its speed limit is 65 m.p.h. The Garden State Parkway, which runs along the Jersey Shore, is a toll road and investigators were expected to look at toll-booth cameras to see whether the vehicle was caught on film.

[goldstategop]

All because he was too stupid not to wear a seatbelt. Just like a liberal.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[commonguymd]

Yep. And I asked you to move along. My profession is none of your business. I did not ask for your freepmail, but I abided by not responding to your mail. Someone is likely in serious jeopardy and you feel the need to snark, slander, and one up. Petty.