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To: denizen48 who wrote (52186)	7/28/2004 9:21:37 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 89467

I wasn't there, but as you may know, ted was driving drunk on Chappaquidick Island, Martha's Vineyard, following a party with several married men and several single women at a rented beachhouse. Mary Jo was in the passenger's seat of ted's Oldsmobile. They came to a four way intersection, when ted spotted a deputy constable walking home after completing his late shift. This spooked Ted, and he turned right instead of left, and headed down the dirt road toward the Dike Bridge, instead of turing left back toward the ferry to Edgartown, as was his intention. Whatever his motivation, ted came to the dike bridge going too fast. The bridge is angled to the road- you have to turn to the left a bit as you go onto the bridge. Apparenttly ted did not do this, the two right tires banged against the bridge's rub curbs, and the car flipped over to the right (there were no railings or guard rails on the bridge) and landed in the tidal pool upside down with the weight of the engine pulling the front of the car down. Ted claimed he does not remember how he got out, but he also claimed he dove back in several times to try to save Mary Jo. He then walked back to the ferry landing, swam across the short distance to edgartown, and went to his hotel room and went to bed. He did not run to any of the nearby houses from the dike bridge to ask for help. He did not alert authorities. he went to bed. He did at a minimum leave the scene of an accident. Back in the submerged car, mary jo was still alive. She became situated in an air pocket in the footwell of the upside-down car. It was estimated she may have lived over an hour with the amount of air that was available to her. There were claw marks in the area of the car around where she was trapped in the completely dark car in the water. Her fingers were worn and bleeding. And the fact is, mary Jo did not drown, she did not die from her lungs filling with water. She was aphixiated - she ran out of oxygen. Think about that. If only ted had quickly gone for help, she might well have survided with a few bumps and scratches. There were then and are today fully-trained firefighters and aquatic rescue experts on all parts of Martha's Vineyard who could have been on the scene and diving within 15-20 minutes. But ted is not a person of good moral character. The next morning as the tide went out, the trunk of the car became exposed, sticking up out of the water. A man arrived with his son at daybreak to fish, noticed the car, and thought nothing of it. They began to fish. The car was in a shallow tidal pool. Mary Jo could have been rescued. If only ted had quickly gone for help, she might have lived. But ted is not a person of good moral character. And he was able to lie and bully and politic and high-price-legal his way out of any charges. And that's one of the perks of being a kennedy in new england. You can get away with manslaughter. I've been to the dike bridge three times. You could throw a large rock across the tidal pool where Mary Joe died. It's such a shame.