Posted on 04/17/2007 6:45:24 PM PDT by WBL 1952
Before crashing into a metal guardrail along the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine's SUV was traveling 91 miles per hour just north of Atlantic City in a 65 mph zone, officials disclosed Tuesday.
The crash, which occurred last week in Galloway Township, occurred as Corzine was traveling in his official vehicle Thursday to the governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J., to host a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team whom Imus racially offended last week on his radio show.
Governor Corzine, who reportedly wasn't wearing his seat belt, was thrown from the front passenger's seat to the back, according to the state police statement.
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Smart move not charging the special needs person with anything. Corzine: breaking the speed limit and no seat belt cooked his own sorry goose.
My thought is how did they know specifically he was doing 91? I hope this is not a “Black Box” going on here
My gun has injured less people than John Corzine’s car.
The black box was my first thought.
Remember that another driver told police that he was driving the same speed as Corzine and neither of them was speeding.
91 mph? Does he think he’s Jeff Gordan?
Looks like it is, but I don't have any trouble with black boxes on state owned vehicles.
“State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said in the statement, that the findings are based on witness accounts, tire track examinations and the Crash Data Retrieval System, or black box.”
the BLACK BOX
Yes, they said the car had a black box and they were going to look at it to get the relevant information.
All (I think) new cars have computers which remember the last 10 seconds or so before a major malfunction, in order to help diagnose problems. This means if you have an accident where the air bags go off, they will know how fast you were going.
Speeding, weaving through traffic, not wearing a seat belt (in violation of State Law) and crashing, just to beat Jesse and Al to a photo Op. You can’t make this stuff up.
so is corzine going to get a ticket for not wearing his seatbelt?
An officer friend of mine says that from the deliniation of skid marks you can get within 1 mph of actual speed. Aside from that, if his speedometer had a needle the needle will impact surrounding material at high speeds and make an indentation or mark. Beyond that I don’t know, but there are ways.
Well if they admitted he was going 91 mph, I wonder how fast he was REALLY going.
Here is the real question: There was an OFFICIAL STATE TROOPER driving the car. He’s a sworn officer of the law. Why did they need ANY other information to know that the car was going 91? Shouldn’t the state trooper have been able to say “I clocked myself going 91 miles per hour using my spedometer”? After all, that’s what they say when they testify about other people speeding.....
Any regular citizen would have their BAC plastered all over the news. All I see here are terrified crickets.
Every car has a black box now. The insurance company gets to access the info as well as police in order to determine facts for accident reconstruction.
Everyone who has ever driven the Garden State Parkway can tell you that 91 mph is about the average speed for troopers in the left lane.
Everyone else is going 75.
It now appears that the red pickup driver was trying to get the hell out of the way. That’s why no charges were brought against him. Freedom of speed for me but not for thee.
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