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durablend

(8,010 posts)
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 07:38 PM Jul 2021

Pa. gubernatorial candidate Charlie Gerow involved in fatal turnpike incident

https://www.abc27.com/news/pennsylvania/pa-gubernatorial-candidate-charlie-gerow-involved-in-fatal-turnpike-incident/

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (WHTM) — A Midstate man who is running for governor is being investigated for an accident that killed a motorcyclist on the Pennsylvania turnpike.

Republican Charlie Gerow, who owns Harrisburg-based Quantum Communications, was in an accident on Wednesday night outside Philadelphia in the westbound lanes of the turnpike.

A man on the motorcycle was killed. A statement from the firm said Gerow is cooperating with the state police investigation and is confident it will confirm that he did not cause the accident.

Gerow has run for numerous offices in the past and declared for governor last month.


The Philly Inquirer has a longer account which said a turnpike worker claims Gerow's car was traveling for miles with a motorcycle wedged in its grille until the state police finally stopped him. We all know where the GOP is involved, "I didn't do it" = "guilty as charged". We shall see....
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Pa. gubernatorial candidate Charlie Gerow involved in fatal turnpike incident (Original Post) durablend Jul 2021 OP
He'd withdraw from the race if he IS guilty FakeNoose Jul 2021 #1
How will he spin this??? Demovictory9 Jul 2021 #3
"Liberals trying to make me look bad" durablend Jul 2021 #4
Driving for miles with full motorcycle stuck to grill sparking??? Demovictory9 Jul 2021 #2
If it turns out he was drunk durablend Jul 2021 #5
Tom Druce redux Deminpenn Jul 2021 #6
Per Gerow's lawyer, Gerow hit the disabled motorcycle and Deminpenn Jul 2021 #7

FakeNoose

(35,946 posts)
1. He'd withdraw from the race if he IS guilty
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 08:16 PM
Jul 2021

That's what I would expect, anyway. With Repukes you never know.


Demovictory9

(33,922 posts)
3. How will he spin this???
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 09:12 PM
Jul 2021

In an interview Friday, Forgette said the first thing he noticed were sparks coming off a car that was traveling at a high rate of speed in the westbound lanes of the turnpike. He and members of his construction crew who were with him were dumbstruck, he said.

“Everyone was in disbelief,” he said. “That is not something you see every day. It was a big motorcycle, too. There were a bunch of sparks. And it was very loud.”

Forgette, who works for a traffic control company in Pottstown, said the car’s driver was pulled over by State Police several miles down from where he first saw him. He said the driver was sitting on a guardrail, stone-faced and “kind of disconnected.”


When he saw the car, he said the motorcycle “was sitting upright, with the side stuck into the front of the car.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/07/pa-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-had-motorcycle-wedged-into-his-car-grill-in-fatal-crash-witness.html

Demovictory9

(33,922 posts)
2. Driving for miles with full motorcycle stuck to grill sparking???
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 09:10 PM
Jul 2021

In an interview Friday, Forgette said the first thing he noticed were sparks coming off a car that was traveling at a high rate of speed in the westbound lanes of the turnpike. He and members of his construction crew who were with him were dumbstruck, he said.

“Everyone was in disbelief,” he said. “That is not something you see every day. It was a big motorcycle, too. There were a bunch of sparks. And it was very loud.”

Forgette, who works for a traffic control company in Pottstown, said the car’s driver was pulled over by State Police several miles down from where he first saw him. He said the driver was sitting on a guardrail, stone-faced and “kind of disconnected.”


When he saw the car, he said the motorcycle “was sitting upright, with the side stuck into the front of the car.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/07/pa-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-had-motorcycle-wedged-into-his-car-grill-in-fatal-crash-witness.html

Deminpenn

(16,343 posts)
6. Tom Druce redux
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 03:39 PM
Jul 2021

This could well have been a true accident. The issue isn't hitting the motocyclist, it's not stopping once he did.

Deminpenn

(16,343 posts)
7. Per Gerow's lawyer, Gerow hit the disabled motorcycle and
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 07:06 PM
Jul 2021

didn't cause the initial accident. Still no excuse to "speed by" construction workers without stopping. Wouldn't a normal person think "what the heck just happened?" if they ran over a big motorcycle. Further, wouldn't you SEE a motorcycle lying in the roadway?

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