Corzine requests a ticket for falure to wear seat belt, pays it.

[madfloridian]

My hubby is from NJ, and he was shocked when I showed him the way people were attacking him when he was near death beause of a seat belt. He is paying his own medical bills, has apologized. I hope folks in NJ can find it in their hearts to forgive a man who nearly died when no one is perfect.

N.J. Governor Pays Seat Belt Ticket

AP) Gov. Jon S. Corzine has voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt during the trip in which a car crash left him critically injured, his spokesman said Tuesday.
Corzine met with State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, Attorney General Stuart Rabner and two state police investigators Tuesday at the governor's mansion in Princeton to discuss the accident, spokesman Anthony Coley said.

As the meeting ended, Corzine asked Fuentes for a ticket, Coley said. Fuentes wrote one, and Corzine wrote a check for $46, Coley said

Corzine fractured his left thigh and broke 11 ribs, his breastbone and other bones in the April 12 accident. He was riding unbuckled in the front passenger seat when his SUV, driven by a state trooper at 91 mph, was clipped by a truck and slammed into a guard rail near Atlantic City.

The governor plans to pay for his own medical treatment and recovery to spare taxpayers at least several hundred thousand dollars. A former head of investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, Corzine reported nearly $262 million in assets in his 2005 U.S. Senate financial disclosure statement.

Even the article is cold and clinical. I have not seen much sympathy. Odd. All about how much he is worth, all about how bad he was not wearing the seat belt. There is no real human feeling in any article I have read.