Driver Who Can’t Get Speeding Ticket Drives Fast

Breaking news out of New Jersey for those of you who can’t put two and two together: The driver of Corzine’s car was speeding during the accident that injured the governor.

The state trooper was going 91 miles per hour on the Garden State Parkway or possibly the New Jersey Turnpike. (There’s no word if the driver was the same one who used to drive Gov. Rendell 100 mph on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, but one can assume each gubernatorial administration has its own speedy driver.)

There’s really not much else to this story, except this:

State Police Superintendent Col. Joseph “Rick” Fuentes said troopers driving governors have discretion whether to speed or use their lights in emergency situations or to avoid standing traffic for security reasons.

He refused to say whether Corzine’s trip from Atlantic City to Princeton for a meeting at the governor’s mansion between fired radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers University women’s basketball team constituted an emergency.

Yes, leaving the city where you can do coke off a hooker’s ass for, like, $10 to mediate a debate between the Cryptkeeper and a basketball team that got embarrassed in the championship game is most importantly an emergency.

Corzine’s van going 91 mph before accident [Camden Courier-Post]