What is it About Kennedys and Car Crashes?…

One would think that the Kennedys would have people who drive the cars for them. I mean, they have the scratch to do it…
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006 | KENNEDY CAR CRASH COVER-UP?

Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), son of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
ROLL CALL reports: According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast.
“The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,” Baird’s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who “declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.”
Baird wrote that Capitol Police Patrol Division units, who are trained in driving under the influence cases, were not allowed to perform basic field sobriety tests on the Congressman. Instead, two sergeants, who also responded to the accident, proceeded to confer with the Capitol Police watch commander on duty and then “ordered all of the Patrol Division Units to leave the scene and that they were taking over.”
A source tells the DRUDGE REPORT: “It was apparent that the driver was intoxicated (stumbling) and claimed he was in a hurry to make a vote.”

…at TWO FORTY-FIVE IN THE MORNING.
Ah, but unlike his blowhard father, Congressman Kennedy now says that he was under the influence of sleeping medication.
Sleep medication. Right. That’s just what you should take prior to getting behind the wheel of an automobile. What bothers me more is that no sobriety tests were performed at the scene of the accident. Kennedy was even given a ride home by the Capitol Police. Call me crazy, but last I knew “driving under the influence” wasn’t just limited to alcohol. Kennedy almost took out a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a barricade.
He’s damned lucky he didn’t kill anybody. It would be nice if, for a change, a Kennedy could come out and say, “You know what, I blew it. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have done it and I’d like to apologize to the Capitol Police, my family and to the American people.”
I’m not holding my breath.
William Smith
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