johnnymk
04-17-2007, 09:03 PM
As usual, certain people are above the law.
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TRENTON -- The sport-utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine when it crashed last week was traveling 91 mph, the State Police said this afternoon.
Corzine remains in critical but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden after sustaining several critical injuries during last Thursday's crash on the Garden State Parkway in Atlantic County.
Data retrieved from the black box in Corzine's vehicle showed speeds of 91 mph five seconds before impact with the guard rail, and 30 mph when the Chevrolet Suburban crashed into the guard rail.
Police initially said speed was not a factor.
"Traffic was flowing and the speed is not considered to be a contributing circumstance," State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said last Thursday hours after the crash. "The accident investigation remains active, and more information will be made available at a later time."
Fuentes scheduled a conference call with reporters for 4:30 p.m.
He has asked a review panel to examine whether the crash was preventable and if Corzine's driver, Trooper Robert Rasinski, should be disciplined.
Police were expected to finish investigating early this week, but that timetable could be slowed due to the fact that Corzine is still unable to speak due to breathing tubes in his throat.
A State Police spokesman said Monday that Rasinski had not yet been interviewed, but another spokesman said today that he was interviewed over the weekend.
Corzine was returning from Atlantic City to Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton Township, for a meeting between between fired radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
As the two-car motorcade headed north -- with emergency lights on -- Kenneth Potts, 20, of Little Egg Harbor pulled to the shoulder to let the vehicles pass. But Potts told police he hit a soft spot on the shoulder and veered his car left back onto the Parkway.
A second vehicle, a white pickup driven by John M. Carrino Jr., 24, of Glenwood, also veered left to avoid collision, but wound up striking Corzine's vehicle, which then crashed into a guard rail.
Corzine, who apparently was not wearing a seat belt, sustained a litany of injuries, but doctors Monday said they were pleased with his recovery and planned to lessen his sedation and begin considering whether to take him off the ventilator
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070417/NEWS0301/70417029/-1/
TRENTON -- The sport-utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine when it crashed last week was traveling 91 mph, the State Police said this afternoon.
Corzine remains in critical but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden after sustaining several critical injuries during last Thursday's crash on the Garden State Parkway in Atlantic County.
Data retrieved from the black box in Corzine's vehicle showed speeds of 91 mph five seconds before impact with the guard rail, and 30 mph when the Chevrolet Suburban crashed into the guard rail.
Police initially said speed was not a factor.
"Traffic was flowing and the speed is not considered to be a contributing circumstance," State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said last Thursday hours after the crash. "The accident investigation remains active, and more information will be made available at a later time."
Fuentes scheduled a conference call with reporters for 4:30 p.m.
He has asked a review panel to examine whether the crash was preventable and if Corzine's driver, Trooper Robert Rasinski, should be disciplined.
Police were expected to finish investigating early this week, but that timetable could be slowed due to the fact that Corzine is still unable to speak due to breathing tubes in his throat.
A State Police spokesman said Monday that Rasinski had not yet been interviewed, but another spokesman said today that he was interviewed over the weekend.
Corzine was returning from Atlantic City to Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton Township, for a meeting between between fired radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
As the two-car motorcade headed north -- with emergency lights on -- Kenneth Potts, 20, of Little Egg Harbor pulled to the shoulder to let the vehicles pass. But Potts told police he hit a soft spot on the shoulder and veered his car left back onto the Parkway.
A second vehicle, a white pickup driven by John M. Carrino Jr., 24, of Glenwood, also veered left to avoid collision, but wound up striking Corzine's vehicle, which then crashed into a guard rail.
Corzine, who apparently was not wearing a seat belt, sustained a litany of injuries, but doctors Monday said they were pleased with his recovery and planned to lessen his sedation and begin considering whether to take him off the ventilator