Posted on 04/18/2007 5:38:22 PM PDT by Enchante
It was an ominous tale an erratic driver in a red pickup racing wildly along the nation's busiest toll road sends the governor's sport utility vehicle careening into a guard rail.
But that story, relayed hours after Gov. Jon S. Corzine was critically injured, has been debunked by a new state police report detailing how his driver was dashing with emergency lights flashing at 91 mph in a 65 mph zone. The alleged erratic driver wasn't a villain but a young man trying to get out of the way of the governor's onrushing SUV.
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Corzine was heading to the governor's mansion April 12 for a meeting with Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team when he crashed on the Garden State Parkway north of Atlantic City. His SUV was in the left lane with its emergency lights flashing when a red pickup tried to get out of its way.
But the pickup's right wheels went onto the grassy highway shoulder, and the driver overcorrected, swerving back on the road. That set off a chain reaction: A white pickup truck swerved to avoid the red truck, struck Corzine's sport utility vehicle and sent it careening into a guard rail.
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I am sure he was thrown around quite a bit. But from the photos I’ve seen, it looks like the front seats remained upright and intact. So, how did Corzine (who is well over six feet tall and 200 pounds) get around the front seats?
The Governor flew over the seats, a spontaneous and chivalrous miracle, landing on top of the distressed damsel in the back seat, sacrificing his very own life and limb in order to spare hers.
It is on faith alone that we believe this miracle.
( Please pass the kool aid, I’m thirsty. )
Up and over — literally... I’ve seen videos and it will make a seat beat believer out of anyone.
“...iffy...”? There is nothing “iffy” about this one, lol.
I can imagine he was... you know it is amazing how people will buckle up and fail to secure their pets in the vehicle.
I just cant buy it with a “spin and smack” accident.
My guess ... two or three days from now an accident investigator will tell us all injuries occurred in the back seat, where he was comfortably “seated”.
Another “D” for whom the laws do not apply ... we little people should learn to get out of the elite’s way more quickly don’tchaknow.
“You can easily determine a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
You can entertain yourself by watching the gas needle drop at high speeds. :-)
Dashing?
91 mph in a 65 mph zone is not what I would term "dashing".
Stupid journalists.
Come on, be fair. It IS an emergency when a Dim is late for a publicity stunt. You seem to think that he’s there for the good of his state, silly. He’s there for the power and ego trip and to line the pockets of his friends.
Yes, that’s what we thought too. Also, why didn’t he leave where he was ON TIME if this meeting was so important to everyone? This whole thing stinks. Corzine is arrogant and always has been. I wish him well and pray he is up and about very soon but it doesn’t take away his arrogance. Maybe this will cause him to rethink his behaviors.
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