Troopers report no injuries in a three-vehicle accident involving Senate candidate Joe Miller early this morning.
Location: Fairbanks
Motor vehicle collision- damage
On 8/27/2010 at 0735 hours, Alaska State Troopers responded to a three car motor vehicle collision on Geist near Wilcox. Mark Alan Lewis, age 49 of Fairbanks, was rear ended by James Gregory Raisis, age 58 of Denali Park as he was stopped in the middle turn lane to turn left into Hutchinson high school. Prior to Raisis rear-ending Lewis, Raisis was rear ended by Joseph Wayne Miller, age 43 of Fairbanks. All drivers utilized their seatbelts and no one injured. All three vehicles sustained heavy damage.
“It was three cars,” Peters told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “Two of them, they just weren’t paying attention and rear-ended each other.
So there were THREE cars involved. Joe Miller's car seems to have been the first one to have made impact by hitting Lewis Raisis. And TWO of the drivers were not paying attention. So clearly Joe Miller would have to be one of the two NOT paying attention since his vehicle was the first to make impact with the vehicle in front of him right?
Well no, not according to what a Joe Miller spokesperson told the Newsminer:
A Miller campaign spokesman said that Miller, an attorney, was not one of the drivers at fault.
“We spoke about it briefly,” DeSoto said. “He said that he did some damage to his truck. I think he’s a little sore. We didn’t get a chance to talk about it a lot. From what Joe told me, it wasn’t his fault.”
WTF? So let me see if I have this right.
Joe Miller's vehicle was the first one to hit another vehicle in this three car accident.
But HE was not at fault.
Yet two of the drivers involved "just weren't paying attention."
But HE, Joe Miller, was not at fault.
Yet his vehicle was the first to hit the vehicle in front of him.
But Joe Miller, the driver of first vehicle to strike another vehicle, was NOT at fault.
I see.
I think I understand why Sarah Palin likes this guy. He simply cannot take responsibility for his actions either.
First he denies sending this tweet from his Twitter account, and now he claims that he did not pummel the rear end of a fellow Alaskan on a road in Fairbanks. Interesting.
P.S. By the way speaking of the similarities between Joe Miller and Sarah Palin, if you check his Twitter account you will see that virtually every single tweet was sent from "tweetdeck", including the one that possibly referred to Lisa Murkowski as a whore. All of them that is except the one claiming that the offending tweet was sent by a staff person and not Joe Miller. THAT one was sent from the web.
Hmm makes me wonder if perhaps Sister Sarah does not have RAM working overtime doing damage control for both she and her pet senatorial candidate. First Van Flein, and now possibly RAM, is there really any doubt that Sarah Palin owns this moron's ass?
What time was that Tweet sent? Was he Tweeting while driving?
ReplyDeleteSo Joe didn't send the tweet that called a sitting senator a whore. Joe didn't rear end a car, causing a chain reaction accident.
ReplyDeleteSo it's basically Joe Doesn't Know---anything.
And this is a surprise? I think everyone will be finding out some more things Joe doesn't know in the near future.
It was really inconsiderate of that other driver leaving their car in his way. Shame on that inconsiderate Alaskan, James Gregory Raisis. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAmazing - no, I guess not really considering he is part of the Palin machine. Just like Sarah, other people are pulling his strings, writing his statements, and covering his ass. The facts of this case, as reported, cannot be interpreted any other way except that he plowed into a car.
ReplyDeleteI have been rear-ended three times - each time I was at a stop sign or red light, waiting for the signal to change or traffic to clear so I could proceed. Each time someone who was talking on his or her phone, messing with the radio or simply zoned-out hit me full-on.
Each time, the police charged the people behind me. It is automatic. If you are the car behind, you get charged because you have the duty to stay alert. Even if the car forward stops suddenly, you are still held liable in most instances because you are supposed to be allowing enough space between you and the car ahead to allow you to stop.
Poor Joe. He doesn't know the law. Poor us, he doesn't care.
what, no breath tests?
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read the title I thought it was going to be about another "republican toe tapping airport toilet sex scandal".
ReplyDeleteSpoken like a true Republican, Family Values Party, Christian...... nothing is ever their fault, even when they are caught red handed. As Adam allegedly said in Eden, "IT'S GOD'S FAULT!"
Once again Sarahcruda proves that old adage about birds of a feather.
Don't forget that tonight the two big Fox racist idiots TEAM BECK/SARAH will be invading Martin Luther King's celebration to show the world once again how to stir up racism and riots.
Har-har-de-har-har. Palin is treated as a small footnote at rally. I've been surfing major news sites and blogs - Sarah is barely a ripple. The only comment made, really, is how she violated the so-called "non-political" tone by taking a dig at President Obama.
ReplyDeleteOh, my, I wonder how little Ms. Quittypants feels today when the news media quit her.
Joe was daydreaming about a three way with Sarah and Todd and got distracted while driving.
ReplyDeleteI agree - she owns him!
ReplyDelete"The staffer made me call a US Senator a whore."
ReplyDelete"It was the car in front of me that made me plow into its rear end."
Joe Miller August 27, 2010 in a speech on personal responsibility
ps. Is the AST going to review the decision to not cite anyone for the accident, or are they still afraid of Palin?
meredithp - love your comment!
ReplyDeleteThat car in front must have been stalking Joe Miller. Why else would he be in the same place as Joe at the same time?
ReplyDeleteCan someone please explain the logic of the following statement Sarah made today:
ReplyDelete“Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet and you can’t take that away from me,” Ms. Palin said.
Excuse me - didn't her son chose the military over jail? Does she mean she raised a kid who vandalized school buses so he could be a combat solider? Gee, how hard is that - just don't pay attention to your kids, let them loose to act out. Good going Sarah. You must be so proud of being a crappy mother.
Who the heck would want to take that dubious honor away from her - a mother who didn't pay attention to a son who was almost forced into the military? I would be ashamed, but not Sarah. She knows no shame.
I like that someone commenting on a car accident was named Desoto!
ReplyDeleteEven if the AST is in Palin's pocket, what about the insurance companies for the two cars in front of Miller? Lila
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely right, anon 7:33; a Following Too Closely ticket is mandatory for the last car in line, at least here in NY state it would be. Also,phone records should be checked for the time of the accident and further charges could come from that.
ReplyDeleteDoes Alaska have talking and texting while driving laws?
You are all wrong...God made me do it.
ReplyDeleteYou are (sorry)....
ReplyDeleteWe'll see who gets cited. From the description here, Joe was the most at fault. The guy in the middle could claim that he could have stopped (or was stopped) until Joe ran into him. Sorry Joe, you're it.
ReplyDeleteMy son plowed into the rear of a truck that stopped suddenly and as anon@7:33 says, the officer who responded said it would go down as his fault for following too closely. Fortunately there was not too much damage, no one was hurt, and the officer wrote it up as an assistance call rather than an accident. No, we're not related; we have no political pull; he just took pity on a couple of scared teens.
ReplyDeleteIn California, the person that does the rear-ending is at fault automatically. For not keeping a safe distance to stop and not paying attention in case the car in front decides to stop for no apparent reason.
ReplyDeleteThe car in the middle would still be at fault, but not by much. If he was stopped behind the front car and waiting to turn and the third car slammed into him, forcing him into the car in the front, then he would not be at fault.
This is going to be fun in traffic court.
Is Lisa Murkowski going to run as a third party candidate. Perhaps on the safe driving platform?
So only two people in the whole wide world have TweetDeck?
ReplyDeleteTD is available for iPhone and in beta form for BlackBerry and Android ......... which means it is out there for millions to use.
Grab a glove, get in the game.
Anybody drown in Miller's car accident? No?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of the hatefest was when WGE(Worst Gov EVER) was blocked from view (on CNN)on the screen by a man in the audience THEN CNN cut the broadcast to something else! Priceless! Then I turned the channel to not watch one more second of it!
ReplyDeleteThe law is pretty simple. Any time YOU rear end someone, YOU are at fault.
ReplyDeleteI have been both a rearender and been rear ended. In the first case I gently ran into some one who was at the top of a hill with no brake lights. I thought they were moving and bumped them. No one was injured and I was given a ticket. The second time some one ran into me going 55 mph on a country road as I was stopped for our local mail person. I stomped on my brakes, threw on the emergency brake, and hit the horn staying on it until I was plowed into. My Dodge 3500 4x4 Ram truck with an extra long bed was pushed into the back of the car in front of me. The passengers in the small car that went hit my truck were severely injured. I had whip lash and no one else was hurt. The driver of the offending vehicle was given a ticket (eventually) and a big insurance claim. The mail person in front of me got a small scratch on her car but was unharmed.
ReplyDeleteI was paying attention and saved the mail person a lot of injury (he was driving a small wagon and had started to move off due to my horn and hand waving.)
I know that dope Miller will get a ticket and he was at fault. That they can't speak the truth already tells me massive volumes about his true lack of values, family or other wise.
I didn't realize that Track was a combat vet. No offense to non-combat troops---they are doing an important job too---but isn't Track a chauffeur for a high-ranking officer?
ReplyDeleteI guess Palin has to embellish Track's service because she doesn't think non-combat troops deserve commendation too.
Palin is shameless.
Should it turn out that he was not tweeting and driving. They should site him for thinking and driving. Obviously he should be banned from multi tasking.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about Alaska, but everyone other place I've lived, you hit somebody from the read, you are automatically at fault. Drivers are not required to be attentive to anything barreling at them from behind.
ReplyDelete....The law is pretty simple. Any time YOU rear end someone, YOU are at fault.....
ReplyDeleteNot true. If the driver in front suddenly slams on the brakes when the light turns green, he's at fault.
Notice that the Troopers did not issue a citation and said they didn't know who Mr. Miller was until after they left the scene.
I saw the whole thing. On Lake Erie, we can see Alaska by looking toward the upper Great Lakes and over the lowlands of Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Mr. Miller was not at fault. He was stopped in the the middle of Geist picking up texts from Mrs. Palin and tweeting to his followers, safety first. Mr Raisis was mad about having to go around Miller's stopped car and gave him the evil eye. Miller's failure to respond with the finger further angered Raisis, so he put it in reverse and rammed Miller. The impact made Raisis' foot slip to the gas pedal and he crashed into Mr. Lewis' car. Upon seeing the name of the driver who hit him, Miller notified Palin who declared it a terrorist attack, and Mr. Raisis was sent to Guantanamo.
ReplyDelete(Disclaimer: I am not a writer for Fox News, the Palins, Michele Bachmann, Glen Beck, Sharon Angle or Mr. Miller.)
Anyone who serves in theatre is considered a 'combat vet'. Regardless of whether they ever engaged the enemy, or heard gunfire from the Green Zone, or read about it from the safety of Kuwait.
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