Posted on 04/14/2007 10:30:07 AM PDT by 50mm
AP NewsBreak: Police find driver in Corzine crash, won't charge By BETH DEFALCOP> Associated Press Writer TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ A state official says police have found the driver they believe caused a car accident that left Gov. Jon S. Corzine critically injured, and would not be charging the man. An official with knowledge of the investigation said the driver, a man who worked at a casino in Atlantic City, didn't realize he had caused the accident and thought he actually avoided an accident.
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Jersey Forum....where are you???
I think you know the answer to that. I think the only reason no charges are being pressed is because the fault is divided, BUT the governor was probably most to blame. I doubt there was any emergency, if so, we would have heard about it by now.
We had a similar type accident last year. A vehicle in the right lane had inadvertantly crossed over into the left, clipping a vehicle in the left. Vehicle 1 kept going thinking nothing had happened.
Vehicle 2 ended up rolling (news said 18 times). It was a LOT! As luck would have it, there was a state police car behind these vehicles and they got the whole thing on camera. The woman had some brokem ribs and a couple of other minor injuries but came out of it pretty good considering.
They finally tracked down the first vehicle and they just finished the trial. He was found guilty and got something like 18 months probation and some sort of fine I think. I just happened to hear the result in some news blurb.
They mean that the other driver was a democrat.
They know it will be a major embarrassment to pursue it any further. What is disturbing is that they find an excuse to avoid prosecuting "Red" after all the talk of hit and run on his part. What if the guy was you or me? Would they be prosecuting? I wonder.
Right!
The Governor broke two laws: speeding and not wearing his seatbelt. His third mistake was speeding to help moderate a discussion between Don Imus & those Rutgers girls. This was and is a tempest in a teapot and the governor should have better things to do considering the huge problems in NJ. I’m ashamed of him and my state.
That said, I hope he speedily recovers.
He has a special need to stop and take a leak every 15 miles while driving.
What was he doing on the shoulder anyway? Sounds to me like your typical NJ idiot who's impatient and decides to try to pass by using the right shoulder.
Or maybe the mentally challenged driver has a big shot daddy.
What he forgot was that New Jerseyans treat the "slow" lane of the Parkway as if it were the Nascar lane.
I think its because they want to avoid a lot of questions. The first being why a mentally impaired person is driving in the first place! Red HAS to be involved, it is the only explanation for why white would have gone left. If red left after the accident he is still in trouble because even a witness has to stay behind.
Too bad the media won't persue the emergency that had the governor speeding.....
He moved off the road like he is supposed to when he saw the speeding vehicle with emergency flashers going. The question is, why didn't the white truck do so and was there REALLY an emergency??
I never said YOU said that!
The obvious answer as to why they didn’t charge is that his vehicle made no impact on the other cars.....he may have been there, he may be their intended scapegoat....but if his car did not physically contact another vehicle.....lucky him.
Oh, you must forgive me. I thought surely when you said “I believe you have the right answer,” you were speaking to me.
You’re taking this personally and you know that always gets people in trouble.
I said: “And .. I believe you have the right answer. If they are going to allow illegals to run wild .. then they have to support not putting them in jail even if they commit a crime .. how silly of us not to see that !!”
Of couse, I didn’t realize that I should have made another paragraph out of the second sentence - “If they are going ...”. And .. I guess I assumed the word “they” would have been a clue that I was not talking about you or quoting you! I was talking about the NJ people.
Does that clear things up!
Now, Thats Two initial lane changes.
(”Red” simply over-reacted when he saw the flashing emergency lights flashing behind him. He probably thought a true emergency was in progress.)
Then “Red” looked in the mirror,( with blind spot), and did not see “white” moving into his lane, yet saw the “emergency” vehicle in the fast lane getting ready to pass, so he moved back into right lane. White was in his blind spot. White moved left to avoid red.
Now, Thats two more abrupt lane changes. A total of four.
Then “Red” looks in mirror, only to see Corzine crash.
“Red” made a simple mistake while dealing with an “emergency” situation, that being a sitting governor rushing to a photo op.
Having the governor use the State Police Medevac helicopter has been a topic of consternation. Both parties (depending on who is sitting in the governor's office) either complain about the cost to the taxpayers and that it's sometime used for campaigning or they pontificate to the other party and electorate that by not using it they are saving the taxpayers money and are no different than the average taxpayer who must use NJ's congested roads, meanwhile the tax-saving politicians approve salary raises and budget increases in the billions and can't account for the billions spent, then brag that they are saving us money by not using the helicopter.
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