http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=2181
CALIFORNIA SENATOR CAROLE MIGDEN rear-ends vehicle sending driver to hospital with minor injuries - KTVU reporter Rob Roth video - Witness alleges Migden did not appear “to be all there” and screamed, “I’m a Senator”
18 May 2007
California Senator Carole Migden this morning rear-ended a vehicle sending its passenger to a local hospital with minor injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.
KTVU-TV reporter Rob Roth is reporting a witness said Migden did not appear “to be all there” and screamed, “I’m a Senator.”
The senator rear-ended a 2005 Honda sedan, which was slowing to a stop behind a van that had already stopped at a red signal light at the intersection of Beck Avenue and Highway 12 in Solano County, according to a CHP spokesman.
She was given a breathalyzer test which showed Migden was not under the influence of alcohol and no citation was issued.
Migden’s office released a statement indicating, “While driving to the meeting, Senator Migden’s cell phone rang and in reaching for the phone she took her eyes off the road. She was not injured, and later passed a routine breathalyzer test and then she drove her car home. Senator Migden is very grateful that no one was seriously injured.”
So it’s the cell phone’s fault.
Who or what is issued a license to drive?
A person?
Or a cell phone?
Dastardly cell phones never could drive well.
Another out-of-control leftist in a SUV with a cell phone.
She supported a law that bans use of a cellphone while driving.
What, they have no-fault collisions in Cali?
I’ve seen too many of these people. They can’t drive and talk on the phone at the same time.
I'm glad to see the headline writer is finally placing the blame where it belongs.
ON THE CELL PHONE!!!
State Sen. Migden in minor auto accident, no major injuries
State senator rear-ends Vallejo woman while talking on cell phone
After all, it's not like the cell phone was driving the car...
I knew fright wigs would come back in style someday.
Is that Phyllis Diller?
..not so minor after she sues Migden for all she's worth!
Don't legislators have to follow the same laws as the rest of us?
Caption for Midgen: Helllloooooooooooooooo Jon Corzine.
To JDM: Don’t you understand the style sheet of journalism at all? If anything bad happens it is either the SUV’s fault, the gun’s fault, violent videogames, violent music, violent movies, the cell phone’s fault, global warming’s fault, or Bush’s fault(whatever the Nanny Statist’s want to ban, I am sure that the rush to ban fatty foods was because they believed, in all sincerity, that the Twinkie defense was true).
Now run along and take a Columbia J-school class, everyone else can teach you how to behave like a good little Democrat. Afterall, it wasn’t the Radical Muslim’s fault for 9/11, it was the plane’s(Sarc.) or at least to some of those people we deserved it or it was the government’s fault.
Can you just imagine a Style Sheet headline on 9/11, columns on whether the Muslims played Doom, listened to Charles Manson and the like, along with “radical muslims crash two planes into WTC, planes blamed”. How come if any domestic situation happens when shootings occur, something else is always blamed but not the perp? It makes me sick, the Nanny Statist nonsense.
First SUVs caused all the problems...... now we have an SUV’s cell phone causing the problem...... I suppose this dipstick of a Demagogue doesn’t bear any responsibility for almost killing someone (victim was luck to get off so lightly).
p.s. I was rear-ended at a stoplight just a few weeks ago by a dipstick with a cellphone...... fortunately escaped without injury, but I sure am running out of patience for imbeciles who recklessly endanger others!!!
Carole Migden, DEMOCRAT-San Francisco
IOW, her SUV -- which is what a Toyota Highlander is -- hit the sedan in front of her so hard that it moved forward and hit the minivan parked in front of it.
But "no citations were issued".
Sounds about right....
What the heck was she driving a Highlander SUV around for - she's a liberal! (Oops, I know, she's a hypocrite, beinga liberal.)
Distracted driving isn't an offense in CA? Or is just when someone other than 'Rat pols and/or Hollyweirdos do it?
"It was RINGING. Whaddya WANT?"