NJ governor takes a hit

[wolf]

I can now not find the story that I read yesterday or the day before that said something about the gov's driver receiving an email on his blackberry at the time of the crash? Anybody else see this?

Aha! I didn't imagine it.

Did Corzine's driver get an e-mail?
New Jersey State Police are investigating an allegation that the trooper who was driving Gov. Corzine's SUV two weeks ago when it crashed going 91 m.p.h. may have been distracted by e-mails sent to his mobile phone or BlackBerry.

A Berkeley Heights police sergeant was quoted in the Star-Ledger of Newark yesterday saying he sent an e-mail shortly before the crash to Trooper Robert Rasinski, confronting him over having a two-year affair with his wife, Susan. He said he enclosed a family photo as an attachment.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by tw

That's supposed to be funny?

I giggled a little.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

You're saying that the average traffic speed on the Parkway is 79 MPH? That hasn't been my experience. I'd say the average is 70-75, with fast drivers going 80. The speed limit is 65 where the accident was.

If you are saying that they were traveling about 12 MPH faster than the fastest traffic on the road, then I agree with you. But I think they were going about 15-20 mph faster than the average traffic speed on that road.

Not at all, in NJ the left lane is doing 80 and the right/center lane doing 74/5 unless it's rush hour or there's something going on like an accident, holiday surge or police presence.