A police car working ahead of Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade was involved in a minor traffic accident Tuesday evening, but it wasn't part of the procession and the vice president was unhurt.It isn't just Biden's tongue that ends up in a tangled mess whenever he has a speaking engagement.
Three unmarked police vehicles, with their lights and sirens on, were traveling 5 to 10 minutes ahead of the motorcade on Manhattan's West Side and were checking traffic before Biden passed en route to an appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," chief police spokesman Paul Browne said.
The cars were going through an intersection when the second one collided with a livery cab around 5:40 p.m. Traffic had stopped for the police, but the livery cab driver pulled out around the line of vehicles and was trying to go through the intersection, police said.
A passenger in the livery cab refused medical attention at the scene. The cab driver and two police officers were examined at a hospital and were released.
The police vehicles had been sent out as a routine patrol ahead of Biden, and the motorcade was not involved, Browne said....
Vehicles linked to Biden have already been involved in two accidents in a week. Last Thursday, two armored Secret Service vehicles struck and killed a man as he was crossing a parkway in Maryland. Biden was in neither vehicle at the time.
In another accident, a sheriff's deputy was injured Monday in Albuquerque, N.M., when a woman drove around police vehicles blocking an intersection and collided with the deputy's car.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Most Dangerous Place in the World is Anywhere Near Joe Biden's Motorcade
If you see Joe Biden's car coming, RUN!
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Drivers nowadays will do things like this when they should be heeding sirens and lights. Sometimes it is due to the fact that the noise-deadening quality of vehicles is getting better all of the time, and combined with the sound system and/or cell phone (even hands free) there are many distractions that are part of everyday driving.
Sometimes the drivers are not distracted but instead simply impatient.
Not to defend the VPOTUS in any way, but this could happen to you and me as well if we had police escorts.
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