Joe Biden's motorcade has been involved in THREE accidents in one week.
Last Wednesday, Biden's motorcade hit and killed a pedestrian.
Was Vice President Dick Cheney's motorcade ever involved in a fatal crash?
Did his motorcade ever mow down a person?
Folllowing the fatal crash, there was a crash on Monday in New Mexico.
Details here.
Here's information on yesterday's crash, from the New York Times:
A police car assisting Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s motorcade collided with another vehicle on the West Side of Manhattan on Tuesday as Mr. Biden was on his way to appear on a television show, the police said.
The accident took place just before 6 p.m. on the corner of West 49th Street and 10th Avenue as the police car was driving ahead of Mr. Biden’s motorcade to help clear the way, the authorities said. Mr. Biden was on his way to a taping of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” which is recorded at a studio on 11th Avenue near West 52nd Street.
The police car, the authorities said, was part of an “advance element” of the motorcade made up of three marked police cars that traveled about three minutes ahead of Mr. Biden’s vehicle to help clear the way and make sure there were no “breakdown issues” along the way.
As the marked cars traveled west on 49th Street with lights and sirens on, one of them collided with a livery cab at the intersection. Two officers and the driver of the livery cab were taken to a hospital with neck and back injuries, the police said. None of the injuries were serious.
Mr. Biden was informed of the crash after taping the show, and spoke with one of the injured officers from Air Force 2 on his way back to Washington, a spokeswoman said. She added that Mr. Biden was happy to hear that all those who were injured had been released from the hospital.
Why would Biden not be told of the crash immediately?
It's hard to believe that he wouldn't be informed of the third crash incident within one week until after the taping of his appearance on The Daily Show.
If it's true that Biden wasn't told about this crash before he taped the show, that was probably because it would seem inappropriate for him to be yukking it up on a comedy program after his motorcade once again sent people to the hospital.
It's possible aides didn't want to jeopardize Biden's big Daily Show spot.
Three crashes in one week.
One FATALITY.
That's awful.
If all of this had happened when Dick Cheney was vice president, it would have been a front page story. The New York Times wouldn't bury it on page 31. The news networks would have been all over the vice presidential crashes. And the late night comedians would have had a field day, using the crashes as fodder to mock Cheney.
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