GWR, You just had to bring back my nightmares about an accident I had just before Christmas 1987 on the Merritt where CT 25 intersects with it. A lady from Bridgeport came wrong way down the exit ramp and parked her car across both lanes of traffic at night. I T-Boned her good. The impact almost cut my then wife in half because she was just wearing just a lap belt in the back seat. (86 Dodge Aries did not have shoulder belts installed by the factory and dealers didn’t know they could offer them as a dealer installed option.)

I used to do 1000 miles a week on those roads. A Pox on then Gov. William “Gov. Who” O’Neill.

Yep, you’ve got a point there. I won’t use the BCE unless I must. I don’t mind the Merritt too much though – yeah, it’s two lanes, short entrance and exit ramps, and blind curves, but when business calls me to someplace like Bristol-Myers Squibb in Wallingford, I’d rather use that than sit in the parking lot known as I-95 for hours. That’s enough to put anyone in a really vulgar mood.

You’re right!

Me. While riding (belted in) on the CBE

Me. After surviving the ride.

“Whoa….time out here. The Governor is the trooper’s boss. He’s not going to be driving 91 mph unless the Governor, sitting next to him, is telling him to step on it. Under the rather unique circumstances . . .”

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Exactly right! The Governor is to blame, not the trooper. The Governor appears to be an egomaniac, too. Obviously, he was speeding on a rainy night on a road His Whiteness describes this way:
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“Also, I haven’t driven on that stretch of the GSP in a few years, but if I recall correctly, it’s only two lanes in each direction there, and the speed limit is 55, not 65, once the road narrows to 2 lanes.”
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My recollection is the same as yours, WR. I know the GSP is not like the NJ Turnpike. It’s scenic and has twists and turns.

I’m sorry the Governor has had to learn a lesson this way, and of course I hope his recovery will be speedy, but he has only himself to blame.

ST, the NJ State Police have concluded that Potts did not know about the accident, and they’re not charging him.

Whoa….time out here. The Governor is the trooper’s boss. He’s not going to be driving 91 mph unless the Governor, sitting next to him, is telling him to step on it. Under the rather unique circumstances, I can’t see how you can in good conscience charge the trooper with anything.

Also, I haven’t driven on that stretch of the GSP in a few years, but if I recall correctly, it’s only two lanes in each direction there, and the speed limit is 55, not 65, once the road narrows to 2 lanes.

But if it’s THAT important to get your picture taken with the Rutgers women’s BB team while piling on the corpse of Don Imus, I suppose it’s OK to run people off the road at over 90 mph. The laws are for the peasants, remember, not for the politicos.