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NJ Turnpike lawyer horror story triggers outbreak of indignation
Posted Mon, 2007-12-17 21:46A lawyer for the New Jersey Turnpike, William B Ziff managed to provoke some wild headlines today: "NJ
ADDS INSULT TO INJURY: SUES TRAGIC CRASH KIN" and "NJ Turnpike officials sue crash victims".
"Disgraceful and obscene" and "the most outrageous thing I have seen in a long time" were comments from lawyers of those sued.
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Australian rock band nearly wiped out by a deer and guardrail on Ohio Turnpike
Posted Fri, 2007-10-19 20:33Two members of an Australian rockband driving between performances in Detroit MI and Brooklyn NY were killed Thursday morning and three others injured on the Ohio Turnpike. Their SUV apparently crashed after the driver - one of those killed - swerved to avoid a deer in the roadway. The driver lost control of the vehicle which hit the rightside guardrail, then bounced back across the roadway overturning and hitting the central concrete median barrier between the two directions of travel.
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Jersey newspaper pressured to remove video of toll plaza crash on Garden State Parkway
Posted Sat, 2007-05-19 17:39
The Press of Atlantic City newspaper removed video of a fiery crash at the Great Egg Toll Plaza on the Garden State Parkway from their website under pressure from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. But it is still available on other sites, and TV stations have shown the video. The video comes from one of the Authority's own surveillance cameras located high on a pole overlooking the approaches to the plaza. The video is date and time stamped across the bottom.
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Great reporter killed in crash at Bay Area Toll Authority's traffic signals
Posted Wed, 2007-04-25 08:13
David Halberstam was one of the best correspondents in Vietnam during the war I remember. He loved to discuss and argue, and had an enormous capacity to demonstrate a theme with examples. I remember - rather vaguely - several exchanges with him while we were both reporters in Saigon. 513 words read more »
Police driver seems to blame for Gov Corzine crash on Parkway
Posted Wed, 2007-04-18 07:36Aggressive 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.
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NJ Gov Corzine badly hurt in Garden State Parkway crash
Posted Fri, 2007-04-13 09:06New 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.
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Doctors said he suffered "severe trauma" in the crash.
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