Cover Up in Automobile Accident Involving a Philadelphia Man
Back in 2009, a Philadelphia resident was hospitalized after his sport utility vehicle was hit from behind and flipped by another driver on Route 295. According to the Star-Ledger, when Clayton Tanskley filed a lawsuit against the driver of the other car, in order to collect damages for medical bills, his attorney discovered the person listed on the NJ State Police accident report does not exist. The driver gave a false identity. It turns out the driver was a state trooper working undercover on an investigation. The state trooper provided his fake state-trooper issued identity to the officers investigating the accident.
The state trooper claimed he fell asleep before colliding with the Philadelphia man’s vehicle. The Star Ledger reports that during the time Tanksley and his attorney were pursuing the fake identification, state troopers knew the name in the accident report was bogus.
Two years after the accident occurred, a New Jersey prosecutor has charged the state trooper with assault by auto and alleging the state troop was drunk. Now the NJ state police are initiating an internal investigation regarding drunk driving incidents involving troopers and the use of undercover ID cards.
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