Posted on 04/17/2007 1:24:54 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
The SUV carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, Superintendent of State Police Col. Rick Fuentes said Tuesday.
The posted speed limit on the parkway is 65 mph.
Meanwhile, Corzine remained in intensive care Tuesday at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he was flown Thursday after the Suburban he was riding in crashed into a guard rail on the Parkway. On his way from a speech in Atlantic City, Corzine was running late to a meeting between the Rutgers women's basketball team and radio host Don Imus, who had been fired earlier Thursday for uttering a racial slur about the players.
Corzine, who apparently was not wearing a seat belt, was the only one seriously injured in the crash. He broke 11 ribs and numerous other bones, including a leg fracture requiring three surgeries to repair. He remained on a ventilator Tuesday to ease the pain of breathing with multiple fractures. Doctors were assessing when he might be able to breathe on his own.
Despite the long list of injuries, doctors have said he doesn't have brain damage or paralysis, and is doing well for someone who sustained so many injuries.
The governor, who was in the front passenger seat and apparently not wearing a seat belt, was thrown to the back of the vehicle and sustained critical injuries. Robert Rasinski, who was driving, and an aide to the governor, were not seriously hurt.
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I guess we know why the police didn't cite the driver of the red truck, who pulled off the road to avoid a speeding motorcade with flashing lights.
Interesting that the initial blame was on the driver of the red truck, while it took a week for this little detail to emerge...
The flacks in the governor's PR office who have been providing information to the media informing us that the vehicle was "traveling at 65 miles per hour" should be thrown out on their @sses, too.
And Corzine has no business spending another day in office, either.
Doesn't NJ have a seat belt law?
But... Democrats don’t have to obey the speed laws, or seat belts laws...they are special...(sarcasm)
Rules and laws are ONLY for Republicans.
A couple years ago a vehicle was stopped for speeding by CHP over near Kaleefornia’s coast. Governor Gray Davis was the passenger, and no citation was issued. Surprised?
According to Newton’s first law of motion, Corzine was still travelling moving at 91 mph just after the crash happened. Unfortunately for him, the car had decelerated.
Speeding 91 with lights on = misdemeanor
Obstruction of justice;blaming on red truck = high crime
Seatbelts make air bags unnecessary - if you use them.
I remember the big stink here in Texas a few years ago when Governor Goodhair was pulled over by a Texas State Trooper and told the Trooper, “Why don’t you just let us get on down the road?”
Let me see if I got this straight. NJ taxpayers are footing medical bills for their their governor so he could travel 91 miles an hour without a seat belt to attend a meeting with Imus and the basktball team?
I agree it is interesting that this is coming out now. Initially all the attention was on the driver of the red truck, who was probably going the speed limit.
So going into a guardrail at 90+mph in a Suburban is totally survivable IF you’re wearing seatbelts? Best damn ad for a car I can imagine.
Not really. I sport an "ECV" sticker on my Corvette ... (that means that I am a member of the clampers) ... and an "XNGH" sticker as well ... ("XNGH" means I'm a past chapter president of the clampers) ... those stickers have gotten me out of many a ticket as there are a lot of LEO's who are also clampers
Thank God Corzine didn’t kill anyone with his reckless motorcade. And the practice of driving like this must end.
To me, the irony is the trooper drove the car with an unbuckled passenger and, himself, was speeding.
It’s not the speed, it’s the sudden stop that gets you.
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