Call causes cell phone ban senator to crash SUV

[Racerbvd]

Call causes cell phone ban senator to crash SUV

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Taken from leftlanenews.com

Call causes cell phone ban senator to crash SUV


05/23/07, 11:46am, EDT


A California state senator who voted to ban cell phone usage while driving crashed her SUV late last week while reaching for a ringing cell phone, the Marin Independent Journal has reported.


California senator Carole Migden rear-ended a 2005 Honda sedan that stopped at a red light, according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver of the Honda suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
Migden was uninjured and no charges were laid since the accident was relatively minor. She was driving a state-issued 2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid SUV.
KCRA reports police received complaints from half a dozen motorists about Migden's erratic driving just prior to the crash.
"We have drivers calling from apparently down in Berkeley all the way up to where she crashed," CHP Officer Marvin Williford said Tuesday. "Her driving was just erratic.
Two of the witnesses who called 911 said Migden grazed a the concrete barrier, several miles before her accident.
"Based on her (Migden's) statement and the damage to her car, we know that she hit something. We're trying to determine where she hit it," Williford said.

[porsche911girl]

God that's funny...

[David]

Come on guys (and gals) those laws are for the common folk, not for politicians, get with the program . I'm sure she knew that when she voted for it.

[Joeaksa]

Would love to know her BAC content. Wonder if she was drinking AND talking on the cell phone?

BTW, why is she driving a STATE ISSUED car?

Joe

[Jim727]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
...BTW, why is she driving a STATE ISSUED car?

She was tired of denting her own???

[speeder]

Great story. The only positive thing I can see happening in the world right now is the trend toward politicians as jackasses.

[p911dad]

Wait a minute.. California legislators get free SUV's to drive around in? Nice perk. Probably a state issued cell phone. And a gas card too.

[Tobra]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
Would love to know her BAC content. Wonder if she was drinking AND talking on the cell phone?

BTW, why is she driving a STATE ISSUED car?

Joe

She blew a 0.0, but the word around the campfire is that alcohol is not her recreational drug of choice, and they did not give her the needle to check for anything beyond booze. No doubt the officer was intimidated by her position as a notorious state senator.

If she grazed a barrier several miles before, then hit a parked car at a red light, I am skeptical of the tale she tells, Maybe you reached for the phone when you hit the barrier, but what about the parked car? Do lesbians put on there makeup while they are driving?