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39:4-91. a. The driver of a vehicle upon a highway shall yield the right of way to any authorized emergency vehicle when it is operated on official business, or in the exercise of the driver's profession or calling, in response to an emergency call or in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law and when an audible signal by bell, siren, exhaust whistle or other means is sounded from the authorized emergency vehicle... b. This section shall not relieve the driver of any authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the...

The SUV carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, Superintendent of State Police Col. Rick Fuentes said Tuesday. The posted speed limit on the parkway is 65 mph. Meanwhile, Corzine remained in intensive care Tuesday at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he was flown Thursday after the Suburban he was riding in crashed into a guard rail on the Parkway. On his way from a speech in Atlantic City, Corzine was running late to a meeting between the Rutgers women's basketball team and radio host Don Imus, who had been fired earlier...

Taking a closer look at governor’s crash 04/17/2007 There seems to have been some spinning going on regarding the crash that came perilously close to costing Gov. Jon Corzine his life.And we aren’t talking about the spin of vehicles involved in that horrendous crash on the Parkway. We’re talking about the spin-- spin as in weasel-worded official accounts -- describing the accident. At first, State Police brass sought to shift the blame for the accident on the driver of a red pickup truck, who was initially described as causing the crash with his erratic driving and then fleeing the scene....