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Kennedy in car crash

Suzanne Goldenberg

Washington: The Kennedy family saga of tragedy and scandal took another turn on Friday after Patrick Kennedy, a Democratic Congressman, driving in an apparently disoriented state in the middle of the night, crashed his car into a police barricade near the Capitol. A police report of the accident indicated the influence of alcohol. Mr. Kennedy is the younger son of the Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, whose political career was irretrievably damaged by his involvement in a fatal car crash, and is arguably the most prominent member of the next generation of that star-crossed clan after cousin John Jr, a magazine publisher, was killed in a plane crash in 1999. In a statement, the Congressman blamed the accident on medications for sleeping difficulties he had been prescribed by doctors. He said he had left his home in the early hours believing he had been summoned to Congress. —

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