Posted on 04/12/2007 3:53:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS) GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine was injured Thursday night in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway, but a spokesman says the injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey in November 2006, soundly beating Republican businessman Doug Forrester in a race that set records for campaign spending but alienated voters with its mean-spirited politicking. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Corzine had 53 percent to Forrester's 44 percent.
Totally unreal. His motorcade was speeding so he wouldn’t be late to moderate the Imus meeting with Rutgers basketball team at the NJ governor’s mansion.
Now his leg is being put back together in surgery and who really knows the truth about what’s going on with his heart condition.
Shock jock + race pimps + speeding democrat governor without a seatbelt = the gift that keeps on giving
The Joisey Turnpike is a very dangerous road, but the Garden State Parkway is even worse. Full of twists and turns, badly designed exits, and crummy drivers.
Update from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1238653720070413
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine broke his leg in a hit-and-run automobile accident en route to a meeting with embattled radio host Don Imus and the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Corzine was flown to a nearby hospital. One local news outlet that tracks police news, Breaking News Network, said he suffered chest pains while being transported to the hospital but that could not be confirmed.
I travel it about a dozen times a year and say prayer before and after I am on it every time.
the rest stop is just north of exit 40 as I recall.
but you are correct, there are cars merging coming out, and others slowing in the left lane getting in. that’s why you can’t blow through there at 90MPH in the left lane, and expect everyone to get out of your way. there are alot of senior citizen drivers in cars down around that AC area, their reaction times are slower.
Oh that was good! LOL!
Prayers for Corzine, the successful purchaser of the New Jersey governorship. It’s enough to make one support public financing of elections.
Corsine is in critically but stable condition.
both legs broken as well as ribs. TV just reported that he had no trauma to his head.
Did not mention anything about his heart.
Yes, if he was going northbound that is around where cars begin to get in the left lane, there is also a gradual turn in the road at that point.
“Bobby Juska of Forked River, who was on the scene of the accident, said Corzine’s legs were hanging out of the window after the accident. He said, “The governor was screaming ‘My leg! My leg!’”
“The governor does not usually wear a seat belt, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press”
Okay, stupidity has to be to blame at some point.
Seat belt? I don’t need no stinkin seat belt!
Just keep thinking that way buddy, you family can bury you with the epitaph of “he no need stinking seatbelt”
...and people voted for this ignoramus?
Aha, eeeeeeevil un-Green SUV !!
Thanks for the update.
Atlantic City has a great obstetrics unit, even though it is often overwhelmed by the numbers of out-of-town women who can’t tear themselves away from the casinos even when they start to go into labor. They say, “I was trying to win money for baby clothes!” LOL
He is lucky to be alive if he was doing 90 and didn’t have a seatbelt on.
Oh yeah, they broke into CSI to report it.
They do indeed, my brother went there after he had a compound fracture of his femur.
BUMP
Bush did it, I’m sure. (He and Rove are picking off dems one by one)..................
Update:
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/
Gov. Jon Corzine suffered leg fractures and “multiple rib fractures” in this afternoon’s crash of his SUV on the Garden State Parkway.
The governor is undergoing surgery at Cooper University Medical Center in Camden.
At a news conference this evening, Steven Ross, a trauma surgeon at Cooper, said Corzine is “stable, in the operating room having leg fractures attended to.”
Ross said that after surgery Corzine will be in the Intensive Care Unit in critical but stable condition.
Ross said the governor did not sustain head injury.
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