Posted on 04/18/2007 5:50:09 AM PDT by libstripper
TRENTON, N.J. - Last year, New Jersey law officers ticketed 271,182 people for not wearing seat belts in violation of state law. This year, one will stand out: Gov. Jon S. Corzine, who was critically injured in an automobile accident last week.
David Wald, spokesman for state Attorney General Stuart Rabner, wouldn't say why state police assigned to protect the governor didn't insist Corzine obey the seat belt law.
"As always, we urge all drivers and passengers to wear seat belts," Wald said.
Corzine, 60, broke multiple bones in the wreck and remains hospitalized in intensive care, breathing with the help of a respirator.
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As a resident of NJ, I can tell you that unfortunately, not much short of a nuclear bomb big enough to level the state could rid NJ politics of corruption.
“The CorzineCrushDummy demonstrated how not wearing seat belts can make dummy subject to thrust from the air bag and subsequent flight towards the back and cargo space, with broken ribs, spine and legs.”
Sounds like this fellow would have been better off wearing his seatbelt and having the air bags disabled.
No, he is an unbuckledhead!
With respect to you both, I think he's a "NoBuckleHead."
Crash Test Dummy Corzine ... or Governor Corvair - Unsafe at Any Speed.
Seat Belt Laws, like speed limits are for the Plebs.....
No doubt he’ll get a ticket. But the folks here seem to want to tape it to his respirator tube. That’s a bit harsh.
He’s learned his lesson, the hard way. Is there *anyone* here who has always worn a belt, and observed the speed limit? Will you in the future?
What OTHER laws did Corzine skirt?
There were problems one time with air bags firing up for no reason. Some people pull out air bag fuse to disable them and rely on belts. The better alternative is the four point safety belts, like in the aircraft and race cars. Nice uniform distribution of load across the upper body and positive retention (except head clonk).
There are stories of people being hurt more by the air bags than actual collision.
Laws are for the masses, not their ruling elites.
Probably quite a few, but the laws of physics caught him.
Wasn’t there a young chick in the car with Corzine at the time. Makes you wonder if he had his seatbelt undone to get some nookie on the way to the meeting.
did the Gov have his trousers on when the rescue effort arrived?
:-)
Approximately half of my 10 minute driver's test was spent getting the examiner to buckle up. He tried to bargain his way out of it by saying he would automatically give me a pass if I didn't amke him buckle up for the hundredth time today, then he said he failed people who made him buckle up and that he had failed plenty of people today and he'd be happy to fail me, and on and on.
After it was over he apologized and told me that it was now a major component of the exam because failure to belt up killed more people in NJ than drunk driving.
It’s been a pack of lies since the story broke.
I can’t believe he was thrown into the back seat during a spin, then side impact. I think he would have stayed in the front of the SUV, then splattered on a front door with the side impact.
I cant imagine a big 200 pound man flying over the top of the front seats, then splattering on a side door.
Makes no sense to me.... unless this is another BS story they need to keep the governor out of trouble.
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