] During the month of June in 1969, Edward Kennedy was
] involved in a horrible car accident. He had been driving
] back from a party on Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, and
] had driven off the edge of a bridge. Luckily, he was not
] severely injured; however, Mary Jo Kopechne, a woman who
] was in his car, was killed. She was a 29-year-old blond
] secretary in Washington D.C., who worked for Senator
] Robert F. Kennedy and Senator George Smanthers. Edward
] Kennedy's wife was home with their children and had not
] attended the party.
]
] The accident was not reported until eight hours after the
] car had sunk to the bottom of the river. On the following
] Monday, Kennedy was charged for leaving the scene of the
] accident. In Massachusetts, a manslaughter charge is
] always given when someone leaves the scene of a deadly
] accident. This was the second time that Kennedy had been
] in a fatal accident; five years earlier he had been in a
] serious plane crash and had broken his back.

Seeing all the blather about Bush and whether or not he was AWOL, reminded me of this incident, when something bad really *did* happen.