Kerry Kennedy Charged With Driving While Impaired by Drugs

[Lucy Goosey]

Source: New York Times

Kerry Kennedy, the former wife of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, was arrested on Friday morning on a charge of driving while impaired by drugs.

Read more: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/kerry-kennedy-arrested-for-driving-while-impaired-by-dr

[msanthrope]

1. Drunk at 8 am??? That's one helluva Thursday night....nt

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Not drunk, impared on drugs - probably prescription, if anything...

Nonetheless, yet another very sad thing for Bobby & Ethel's kids...

[msanthrope]

3. Need to read more better....nt

[JDPriestly]

6. At the end of the article, it states that she voluntarily took all the tests -- and there were no

drugs or alcohol. The article may have been updated after you posted.

[FarCenter]

4. Also leaving the scene of the accident...

Police responded to 911 calls of a vehicle operating in an erratic manner on Interstate 684 at around 8 a.m. The car, a white 2008 Lexus RS 350, collided with a tractor-trailer, sustaining damage and a flat tire, before driving off the highway at exit 3, authorities said.

Police located the car on a state road. State police arrived and determined Kennedy, 52, was operating the car while impaired by drugs.

A source familiar with the situation says police found her passed out behind the wheel.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/kerry-kennedy-arrested-driving-under-influence-westchester-162412446.html

[tabasco]

11. Was she charged with that ...

or are you just making that up?

It's quite possible the semi just kept rolling, but you knew that, didn't you?

Why would you post something that is not true?

People who do that are called liars.

[FarCenter]

12. Of course she wasn't charged. She's a Kennedy, so different rules apply.

Kerry Kennedy charged with impaired driving

Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was arrested this morning after leaving the scene of a car crash on Interstate 684. She was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, state police said.

The crash happened just south of Exit 4 about 8 a.m., when Kennedy is believed to have struck a tractor-trailer in the southbound lanes while driving erratically, state police said. No injuries were reported.

http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/174562/37/Kerry-Kennedy-charged-with-impaired-driving

[tabasco]

14. Oh, I see. But she was charged with DUI and wasn't DUI.

It seems those rules applied to her.

Do you think she should have stopped on an interstate highway? Apparently the police didn't think so.

You seem to have all the answers, in your own mind. Take your stinking rotten baloney somewhere else.

[FarCenter]

15. Left scene, but wasn't charged. Charged with DUI, but wasn't DUI. All charges dropped. What a scam.

[tabasco]

16. LOL! Yes, your scam is quite apparent.

How unfortunate for you, your warped agenda and your ilk that she safely exited the interstate and was not intoxicated.

BUMMER DUDE!

[FarCenter]

19. Your self portrait, I presume.

[tabasco]

20. Your sense of humor FAIL, I presume.

[FarCenter]

21. Kerry Kennedy found slumped over wheel: Source

Police found Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, slumped over the wheel of her car before she was charged Friday with driving while impaired by drugs, a law enforcement source told Newsday.

Kennedy's arrest came after she sideswiped a tractor trailer on Interstate 684 in northern Westchester County and left the scene in her 2008 Lexus RS 350 around 8 a.m. Friday and was found by police about five miles away on the shoulder of Exit 3 leading to Route 22, her car damaged and a tire flattened, police said.

A law enforcement source said Kennedy, 52, of Bedford, told police she had taken Ambien, a prescription drug typically used to combat insomnia. According to drug manufacturer sanofi aventis' website, Ambien's potential side effects include "sleep driving" -- driving without knowing it.

http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/kerry-kennedy-found-slumped-over-wheel-source-1.3837977

[tabasco]

22. Scandalous!

Not.

Keep tryin' Sparky.

[FarCenter]

23. You're right. Driving down I-684 with other motorists calling 911 is no big deal.

Other motorists were calling 911 to report her erratic driving.

She hits a semi, continues on, and leaves I-684 at Exit 3 southbound.

Right, no big deal.

It's a good thing she didn't cross the median into oncoming traffic.

[pnwmom]

26. She wasn't charged because the blood tests were negative. nt

[JDPriestly]

5. Misleading partial truth.

But a spokesman for Ms. Kennedy, Ken Sunshine, denied that she was impaired.

“Kerry Kennedy voluntarily took breathalyzer, blood and urine tests – all of which showed no drugs or alcohol whatsoever in her system,” he said. “The charges were filed before the test results were available.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/kerry-kennedy-arrested-for-driving-while-impaired-by-drugs/

Maybe she was simply ill????

[Ian David]

7. Ambien hang-over? n/t

[obamanut2012]

9. That's what I was wondering

Or some physical ailment.

[pnwmom]

27. There are many possibilities. Hypoglycemia, for example. n/t

[midnight]

25. Why were charges filed before test results were available?

[alp227]

8. Bummer. Kerry has done lots of human rights activism over the past decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Kennedy

She just threw her life away like this, so disappointing.

[obamanut2012]

10. Except it appears she wasn't DUI in any way

[midnight]

24. This is going to take some sorting out... some conflicting info. that's for sure...

[Wind Dancer]

17. You're sure quick to judge...

.. this woman's life is over given the info being reported.

Geeeez!

[alp227]

18. Well, if the news reported you were arrested for hit and run,

don't you think you would least lose some friends or your job?

[tawadi]

13. The tests "showed no drugs or alcohol whatsoever in her system"

But the headlines plastered in bold print because her name is Kennedy.

[pnwmom]

28. Why would you deliberately leave out important exonerating information?

It's not like it was buried anywhere. You only had to read to the third sentence of the article.

“Kerry Kennedy voluntarily took Breathalyzer, blood and urine tests — all of which showed no drugs or alcohol whatsoever in her system,” the spokesman, Ken Sunshine, said. “The charges were filed before the test results were available.”