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.
This proves it. The guy who enforces the law doesn't take it seriously.
I suspect the same thing, that he never saw what happened, or knew it was not his fault and just kept going.
I once saw an old man try to kill himself on route 78.
He came out of the grass median, perpendicular to traffic.
I saw it coming, and I avoided the hit. In my mirror, I saw a cloud of dust when the guy was hit broadside by a truck that was behind me. A big explosion. I think he was intentionally trying to kill himself.
Cooper hospital is now a university? How’d that happen?
yeah, but its also the reason why he is in critical condition with so many injuries - rather then walking away from this accident.
When the story initally broke, it made it sound like he just had scrapes or bruises.
I have seen maps of where the accident occured. Right after the stretch of road where the accident happen there is a curve. If they were going at the speeds I think, I doubt he even knew their was an accident.
Who knows with the old folks. They sometimes get confused. My mom is 84 and still drives. I know, that at times she is dangerous. She is beginning to realize it too. But that doesn't stop her. She had an accident about 4 years ago. It wasn't her fault at all. She was stopped, and left a gap between her and the car in front so a truck could get out from a side street. Turns out, it was one of those 12 yard triple tandem dumptrucks and the driver misjudged the turn and ran over the hood of her car with his back wheels (all six of them). It not only crushed the front of her car, but deformed the engine block too. She wasn't hurt, but it took six months for her to recover from it mentally. She called me on her cellphone while she was still in the car, and was unable to put a coherent sentence together. Fortunately, the cops called about 10 minutes later and explained the situation.
After this accident, driving in NJ is going to get costly. I bet they raise the seat belt fine to 500 bucks.
Then raise the state workers pension benefits .... the state has earned the reputation that its being run by the mob.
12 broken ribs, cracked vertebrae, etc.
This guy wont be back as governor. He’s 60 years old.
This poor guy will be on pain killers for the rest of his life. It’s pretty sad.
Within the first month after we had moved to New Jersey (1985)the same thing happened to me on the inbound George Washington Bridge:it was mid-day , stop and go traffic, no more than 10-20 MPH, but halfway across, I got rear-ended, pushing my 15 year old station wagon into the rear end of a BRAND NEW CADILLAC in front of me, who had stopped, as I was just about to. I got out, the Cadillac owner got out, nearly in tears as he looked at the pushed-in trunk of his car, which was ONE DAY OLD. We both approached the driver of the car who hit me, who had gotten out, and needed to have it explained to him how HE hit ME, and that caused ME to hit the Cadillac guy. I glanced back at the guy’s car and it had about the occupancy rate of an illegal apartment in the Bronx, all Latinos. “I hope you have insurance” I said. “Oh, yeah” he said, and went back to the car. I made the mistake of turning my back on him, and two seconds later, Cadillac man and myself watched the driver whiz by us as fast as he could across the GWB.. I got stuck with paying a third of the repair on the Cadillac, and my rates went up about 20%.But of course, as spinmeisters like Geraldo would say, “It’s not an illegal issue, it’s a bad driver issue”. So, basically, I paid the driver’s insurance FOR him. Call it another form of welfare, say, in the same way the Lottery is another form of taxation.
Not familiar with Cooper. Is it a community hospital?
Pay to play, badda bing.
I made a vow this year. I told my wife and kids, we will never make another purchase in the state of NJ.
I got a ticket for talking on a cell phone after shopping there. (I had out of state plates.) I make it a point tell everyone in PA how friendly NJ’s police are becoming with our wallets. Badda Bing!!
It’s one of the best hospitals in the state...across the river from Philadelphia in Camden, NJ....unfortunately,
based on statistics reported by the FBI, Camden was ranked the nation’s most dangerous city in 2004 and 2005. I won’t go there. I drive to Philly to use their doctors and hospitals.
http://www.cooperhealth.org/content/AboutUs.htm
Interesting karma at work here.
I always thought that Cooper was a second rate, rather unpleasant hospital. I remember it from my childhood. In other words, it is very old. My grandfather died there in 1955.
compared to the hospitals local in this area (South Jersey) Cooper is elite! Best wishes to Corzine to heal and recover.
Who does he think he is - Princess Diana?
Yes,I see your point about Governor Corazine but as one who has been a victim of several near fatal accidents and illnesses I just don’t feel too good about wishing pain on anyone,sarcastically or otherwise.
Its not Christian and its just plain mean spirited.
I know how bad JFK hospital is, they nearly killed my mother. She was in the intensive care ward when I received a call from the duty doctor, asking for permission to take her off a ventilator and give her morphine to help her die. I told him no way. When I got to the hospital from WA State, I walked in on a nurse yelling at her and pulling on her arms, very roughly. She stopped what she was doing and said that my mother had been very uncooperative. Now this was supposed to be a woman who had had a brain stem stroke and was supposedly comatose, but she was fighting the nurse. When I walked over to her bed and told her that I was there now, and everything would be ok, she moved her arms and her legs in response. Then the nurse came over and told her to open her eyes, and she did. The next day, they took the ventilator out and my mother begged to let out of the intensive care ward. The whole time that we were up there, another patient was begging to get out of there also. When they took her down to the regular ward, they also changed her diagnosis and deleted all record of the original diagnosis of a stroke. She had fallen down the stairs and hit her head.
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