Vehicle in Bush motorcade involved in accident

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-16-motorcade-crash_N.htm?csp=34

URBANA, Md. (AP) — A vehicle in President Bush's motorcade traveling from Washington to the Camp David presidential retreat collided Friday with another car on an icy Interstate, but no one was injured.

Bush typically is flown in the Marine One helicopter from the South Lawn of the White House to Camp David near Thurmont, Md., but rain and snow prevented the flight and the president left in a motorcade a little after 2 p.m. ET.

"The president is fine and his car was not involved in the accident," White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore said.

The motorcade, fighting bumper-to-bumper traffic in rain, sleet and snow, was using the shoulder of the highway at times to move northward. At about 3 p.m., a sports utility vehicle in the motorcade slid on ice and collided with a private car, Secret Service spokeswoman Kim Bruce said. Both vehicles spun off the road into the median.

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So, Smirky, goes on vacation again.



A support vehicle in U.S. President George W. Bush's motorcade (L) gets involved in an accident with another vehicle on Interstate 270 in Urbana, Maryland, March 16, 2007. The motorcade was transporting Bush to Camp David. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

I wish der chimpenfuhrer would go on a permanent vacation--to the Hague.

Presidential motorcades are usually awfully safe places, except in Dallas.

...in very poor visibility. God help anyone who might be broken-down on the shoulder. I guess Shrub's sense of entitlement knows no boundries. What's dangerously unsafe for a private citizen, is perfectly fine for Il Dunce.

My family has ranches (real ones) around the idiot's little chunk of land outside of Crawford.

You would just not believe the speeds at which those bozos drive in those motorcades.

They shut down all of the roads and still drive like their asses are on fire.

What a bunch of idiots.

and immediately goes to Camp David on return. Gather his thoughts on the good will tour, watch the Chavez interview on TV tonight, or go on a bender to ease the scandal pains? But mostly he is staying out of sight.

And yes I think they did have an accident several months ago. Can't remember just when.

Before he's escaping to Camp David?

Maybe he's hiding from the big protest that's happening tomorrow? Little Chickenshit.

that poor old African American man who jumped the white house fence while he was still in it! I hear they also found a suspicious package. Hmmmm........Wonder if he could be an upset Vet trying to find his way to a Doctor in Washinton for his PTSD?????

that little toad around. I love my country but not the assholes who lie men and women into war and who bomb innocent men, women, and children so their polls can go up and their coffers can get fatter.

if the truth be known, Chimpy was driving. Was there a DUI citation?

would just STAY HOME!

OOPS! I forgot! I said rational people, and this story is about Shrub!

running a motorcade up the shoulder. If the idiot had waited 16 hours he could have flown up without putting normal people's lives in danger. I-270 is a gridlock ready to happen even when the weather is perfect. But, what else should we expect from a regime that is completely out of touch with the realities of this world?

If he wants to relax, he can stay at the White House, tell the staff not to bother him and not have to worry about endangering everybody as they speed along the shoulder of icy roads like lunatics to take him out for a weekend in the country. Is the Secret Service allowed to tell him no when he wants to do something too dangerous to be permitted, or do they have to go along with it?

. . . have to shield him from the scary protestors this weekend.

Traveling on the shoulder puts everyone on the road at risk.

:grr:

more worthy of headline status if they stuck to: "Flash: Bush is working today".

Then we could all go into duck and cover mode.

... just like that schmuck who was so rude as to get in front of Dead Eye Dick's shotgun.

dead somewhere

At the least, he'll probably be in some database as a "Person of Interest" for the rest of his days.

is the idea of him getting caught in Friday rush hour traffic on the Capitol Beltway. THAT'S hell in itself.

OMG... the terror

The article doesn't say anything about the people who were actually involved in the accident.

...should be concerned about! ;)

there are rumors of divorce...

Or he had a serous stash of liquor for Saint Paddy's Day set up to watch basketball this weekend.

He always leaves Washington when he knows there's going to be a big protest. I went to one before the Iraq fiasco he started and he wasn't in town then either.

He's a coward and a chickenshit.

the media is so full of bad news these days, I can hardly stand it.

:rofl: oh, if only I could say what I want to without getting picked up by the Secret Service...