Mitt Romney was driving during an accident in the 60s that killed a passenger

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Source: Examiner

Before Mitt Romney was a politician he was a Mormon missionary in France during the 1960s. It is a little known fact that while he was spreading the gospel through rural France in 1968, Mitt Romney was involved in a head-on collision. Romney was driving, and one of his passengers was killed.

This was first reported by The Boston Globe in 2007 when they told the story of Mitt Romney almost dying in Bernos-Beaulac, France while driving a Citroen DS. Romney, who was 21 at the time, was driving from Pau to Bordeaux as a chauffeur for Duane Anderson the French Mormon mission president.

Romney tells the story of going around a curve and being struck at full speed by a Catholic priest named Albert Marie. Romney claimed Albert Marie was drunk but this has never been verified. Conversely it was not been verified if Romney was under the influence at the time of the accident, because he was unconscious and in a coma. The first police officer to arrive wrote, "he is dead" in Romney's passport. There is no record if a sobriety test was issued after Romney regained consciousness who escaped the crash with a broken arm and lacerations to the face.

Six people were in the car that day. Suzanne Farel, Bertin Farel, David Wood, Mitt Romney, Duane Anderson and the fatality, Duane's wife, Leola Anderson.

Read more: http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-was-driving-during-an-accident-the-60s-that-killed-a-passenger

[nolabear]

1. God, that's terrible. I'd leave it out of the campaign completely.

There's no way to prove wrongdoing and in fact there might have been none. Causing peoples' families undue pain will gain us nothing.

[frogmarch]

4. I agree. Nothing would be accomplished by

bringing it up. I say let it be.

[denvine]

5. I agree, nothing to gain and a whole lot to lose.

[valerief]

2. Damn, the world almost lost him, but no cigar. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. The first police officer to arrive wrote, "he is dead" in Romney's passport???

Oh man,...the Evangelicals are gonna have a Anti-Christ roll on the floor over this!!!

[Ian David]

9. Does Romney actually have a pulse? Or did Romney actually die, and this person...

... claiming to be Mitt Romney is actually an imposter?

I want to see the DNA certificate!

Maybe Willard Mittenton Romney is either an imposter or a vampire.

[hedda_foil]

6. Two things.....

1. He was driving in a terrible accident that killed the wife of the mission president and injured him rather badly as well. I'd say that must have been terribly traumatic for him but...

2. He somehow managed to pin the blame on the priest who was driving the other car even though no tests were performed.

SO HOW THE HELL WOULD HE HAVE KNOWN?

[Ian David]

8. It's amazing what money and political connections can do. n/t

[Ian David]

7. Romney's Chappaquiddick. n/t

[MADem]

10. LOCKING--this is not LBN and has been covered on DU before.

Feel free to repost in GD if you'd like--this story hasn't gotten all that wide of an audience for some reason.