Corzine

A close political race for state governor in New Jersey, and accusations that incumbent Gov Jon Corzine was reviving his 2006 plan for monetization of the Turnpike produced a commitment to freeze tolls during his next term. "No toll increases, no leasing of the turnpike...Off the table. Not happening, period." That's how Gov Corzine spoke today after tolls became a furore that he judged threatened his re-election.

Aggressive driving by his New Jersey police driver Trooper Robert Rasinski was the main cause of the crash that nearly killed state Governor Jon Corzine on the Garden State Parkway Apr 12. And obsolete engineering designs of the steel guardrail in the median caused what should be a safety feature of the Parkway to become a near-lethal spear that reared up and tore through the Governor's out-of-control vehicle.

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine suffered serious chest and leg injuries in a car crash on the Garden State Parkway Thursday about 6pm, while being driven from Altantic City to his home in Princeton. Corzine was taken with two injured aides by helicopter to Cooper University Hospital in Camden.

Doctors said he suffered "severe trauma" in the crash.