Did Corzine's driver get an e-mail? (About Affair While Driving)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Detective Sgt. Michael Mathis said he hoped the angry messages he sent to Rasinski did not cause the April 12 crash on the Garden State Parkway.

"We are confirming that there is this allegation and that it is under investigation," State Police Lt. Gerald Lewis said yesterday. He declined to comment further.



Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20070423_Did_Corzines_driver_get_an_e-mail_.html

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Whoa, this is a bizarre element to the story.

[Blue_Tires]

1. tawdry...

[babylonsister]

2. Really. Who cares? Feeding the infotainment imo. nt

[RamboLiberal]

3. Who cares - distracted driver at 91 MPH?

Story to me is not about the affair - could care less about that - but was this trooper reading/texting his email on his phone or blackberry while driving at 91 mph! Laws are being passed all over the country about this and troopers are the ones enforcing these laws against the rest of us.

[babylonsister]

4. Why is 'affair' in your OP if it's so minimal? It's someone trying to cash in

by being involved, not that I think using a blackberry OR phone is good or safe driving etiquette.
But I don't own either, so it's only my problem if someone kills me. And then it wouldn't be.

[RamboLiberal]

5. Because that is how the media is reporting it

And getting accused of an affair while driving 91 is not great for the mental state of the trooper driving! Go read some other post if it bugs you so bad!

[babylonsister]

6. Sorry. I didn't mean to piss you off. nt

[hlthe2b]

9. As someone who has had two very very close calls..

with agitated, very aggressive, speeding drivers engaged in animated (angry?) calls on cell phones, I think perhaps, babylonsister, you are missing the point. I sure as hell care if a state trooper is texting while driving 91 mph.

The fact he may have received news that would further agitate him AND that he was driving the state's governor, underscores the problem, but that is not the only key aspect to the story, IMO. However, it SHOULD drive attention to the problem, which is much wider than this incident.

Just as you or I would be outraged if someone killed our loved ones while driving drunk, we should be outraged when people drive irresponsibly--especially while distracted using a cell phone.

[MADem]

7. WOW. You can't make this shit up. NT

[razzleberry]

8. was Corzine awake, when this happened?

should this happen to me
.......................
being in the front-passenger-seat in a SUV going at an unsafe-SUV speed..
and the driver decides to stop paying attention to driving,
and fuss around with a PDA
..............
I would, as Commander-in-Chief of the state police,
order the state trooper to direct his attention to driving.
...................
what am I missing?

[hlthe2b]

10. I'm guessing, that if Corzine would not wear a seatbelt going 91mph

That he may have been pretty darned unconcerned, in general. I'm guessing, as Governor, he'd already gotten used to high speed travel through traffic, lights flashing. Oh, yeah, there were NO lights flashing, either, given this was an unmarked SUV....:shrug:

He most assuredly will have learned several valuable lessons--the hard way.