New Jersey State trooper and Union President David Jones avoids getting ticketed or tested for alcohol after being involved in a major car crash on Route 70 in Brick, New Jersey, in 2005.

Why would it take two years for the accident to became public knowledge?

Could it be:

• Because he is a NJ State Trooper?
  
• Because he and his kind are above the law?
  
• Because the local "Brick" police were told to lay off?
  
• or "D" All of the above?

Jones said that any effort to ask him about the accident was "nothing but an attempt to besmirch" him in a "smear campaign."

He called it a "smear campaign." Why? Because of the incident last month when he publicly threatened the "Jersey Guys" Graig Carton, and others working at the Radio station NJ101.5 FM, because they reported on an "alleged ticket-writing blitz" about to take place in New Jersey by the State Police?

It appears cut and dry to me.

• He was in an accident.
  
• He was the cause of the accident.
  
• He "had been drinking" prior to the accident.

But no ticket, no alcohol testing and a complete cover up for almost two years.

Where is the "smear campaign?" Shouldn't this information be public knowledge?

No ticket for trooper in crash.

BRICK — When State Police Trooper David Jones slammed a sport-utility vehicle into the back of a 40-ton tractor-trailer in 2005, the impact was so hard that it knocked the truck forward and then the truck driver was jolted back into his seat.

Brick police later stated in the department's official report that Jones "had been drinking." Jones is the president of the troopers union who recently railed against two radio talk show hosts claiming they endangered the lives of officers on the roadway.

Jones' "driver inattention" was the only apparent contributing circumstance for the accident, according to the police report.

Police did not conduct tests on Jones to determine the blood-alcohol level, if any, in his body. No summonses were issued in the Nov. 1, 2005, accident on Route 70 near the Manasquan River. Jones lives in Brick.

The GMC Suburban driven by Jones was owned by the Manasquan-based State Troopers Fraternal Association. It was totaled in the 10:48 p.m. accident. The Suburban struck the underside of the tractor-trailer before becoming airborne and spinning away.

Jones was extricated and transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, with a bleeding head wound, according to the police.

Brick Township police Capt. Douglas Kinney said the investigating officer at the scene, Patrolman Jeffrey C. Lindquist, would have arrested Jones if he'd been drunk.

"Everyone who has been drinking is not necessarily intoxicated. He made a determination that Mr. Jones was not intoxicated," he said.

That Jones wasn't given a summons, Kinney said, was within the officer's discretion. Kinney said it's common in Brick for officers to not issue summonses in traffic accidents.

Lindquist's report said that Jones was incapacitated by the accident, but the report did not say if Lindquist administered any field sobriety test to Jones. The Police Department declined to make Lindquist available for comment.

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Too many question... not too many answers.

UPDATE - FYI: Time off, reprimand for trooper union chief

State troopers union President David Jones was suspended for five days without pay and reprimanded Tuesday after a report from the attorney general said he "brought discredit to himself" and the State Police by releasing personal information about New Jersey 101.5 FM radio host Craig Carton.

Jones also was ordered to undergo conflict resolution counseling, according to two law enforcement sources who would not discuss the discipline publicly.

State Police Superintendent Col. Joseph "Rick" Fuentes handed down the punishment, hours after Attorney General Stuart Rabner issued a report and statement criticizing Jones' actions at a May 3 news conference in which the union leader held up a paper showing Carton's home address and the make, model and license plate number of his car.

Rabner's investigation found Jones did not obtain Carton's information through law enforcement databases. But Rabner wrote that Jones' actions "created an inappropriate perception that law enforcement would harass a citizen whom they have a grievance against."

"This perception harms law enforcement. In the case of the State Police, it undermines the good will that professionals have earned," Rabner wrote.

Big Deal!