Corzine Still Requires Ventilator
New Jersey governor Jon Corzine still requires the use of a ventilator to breath a full week after the accident that left him critically injured.
Corzine's condition cannot be upgraded to stable until the tube is removed. Dr. Steven Ross, head of trauma at Cooper University Hospital, said he hoped that would happen within days, not weeks.
The governor, who was visited Thursday by at least two of his three children, cannot speak because of the breathing tube but can nod his head.
Corzine was the only person seriously injured when the SUV he was riding in wrecked on April 12 north of Atlantic City.
The message here is to wear your seatbelt, especially if the vehicle you are in is rocketing down the highway doing 91 as Corzine's SUV was. Better yet, don't speed like that in an unstable vehicle like an SUV at all. But still wear the seatbelt.
By feeblemind, Saturday, 21 April , 2007 @ 10:22 am
Many yrs ago I was the first person to arrive on the scene of a fatal accident. The minivan had been broadsided and rolled. The children that were strapped in were crushed to death. A little boy that was not wearing his seatbelt was tossed about 75′. He split his lip and broke his ankle. Wrecks are crapshoots as far as seatbelts go. They may or may not help. If you are strapped into a tiny little gas saving vehicle they will insure that you are killed. An ER doctor once told me that the best safety measure you could take was to wear a crash helmet in your vehicle. But who wants to do that?